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 3 Poisson regression analyses for provision of high-quality of PITC and facility readiness unadjusted (Model 1) and adjusted by the selected factors (model 2)

Variable	Model 1	Model 2
	β (Robust SE)	β (Robust SE)
Facility readiness score
Score	0.069 (0.016)**	0.075 (0.017)**
Managing authority (ref. Public)
Private	− 0.129 (0.082)*	− 0.123 (0.070)*
Facility location (ref. Rural)
Urban	− 0.022 (0.060)
Facility type (ref. Clinic/dispensary)
Health centre	0.068 (0.054)*	− 0.083 (0.062)*
Hospital	0.053 (0.055)*	− 0.069 (0.073)*
Quality assurance (ref. Not performed < 1 year)
Performed < 1 year	0.068 (0.055)*	− 0.015 (0.068)
Routine management meeting (ref. Not performed)
Performed	0.088 (0.099)
Provider’s sex (ref. Male)
Female	− 0.034 (0.070)
Cadre (ref. Nurses)
Clinicians	0.239 (0.144)*	0.179 (0.114)*
Working experience (ref. < 5 years)
≥ 5 years	0.026 (0.054)
Age (ref. < 20 years)
20–35 years	0.061 (0.052)*	0.059 (0.047)*
> 35 years	0.042 (0.066)*	0.055 (0.062)*
Education level (ref. None)
Primary	0.005 (0.049)
Secondary and above	0.047 (0.062)

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