Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV/AIDS: Perception of Health Care Workers in Rural Areas of Oyo State

Table 3

Attitude of health care workers towards PMTCT of HIV/AIDS ().

Variables	Number (percentage)
	Disagree	Indifferent	Agree
PMTCT program is very important	24 (6.9)	29 (8.3)	297 (84.9)
Providing PMTCT stops us from providing good ANC care	257 (73.4)	29 (8.3)	64 (18.5)
I am scared to deliver HIV-positive women because of fear of infection	157 (44.9)	12 (3.4)	181 (51.7)
HIV-infected pregnant women must be delivered by skilled personnel	44 (12.6)	72 (20.6)	234 (66.9)
There is not enough time to give to PMTCT services	18 (5.1)	12 (3.4)	320 (91.4)
HIV-infected woman may not breastfeed her child if there is risk of infection	97 (27.7)	64 (18.3)	189 (54.0)