Does facility readiness promote high-quality of provider-initiated HIV testing and counseling to pregnant women? A national survey for improving policy of prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV in Tanzania

Table 2 Distribution of PMTCT service readiness indicators, TSPA 2014–2015 (n = 648)

Variable	n (%)
Staff and training
Presence of guidelines for PMTCT	513 (79.17)
Availability of trained staff	385 (59.41)
Equipment
Presence of visual and auditory privacy	533 (82.25)
Diagnostics
HIV diagnostic capacity for adults	300 (46.30)
HIV diagnostic capacity for infants	407 (62.81)
Medicines and commodities
Zidovudine syrup	24 (3.70)
Nevirapine syrup	448 (69.14)
Maternal Antiretroviral	494 (76.23)
The mean PMTCT readiness score	Mean [95% CI]
Facility readiness	63.96 [61.32–66.59]
Total	648

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