Facility-based delivery in the context of Zimbabwe’s HIV epidemic – missed opportunities for improving engagement with care: a community-based serosurvey

Table 1 Frequency of facility-based deliveries by province, estimated by the 2012 survey and the 2010–2011 ZDHS

	2012 PMTCT survey^a (deliveries between 10/2010 and 11/2011)		2010-2011 ZDHS^b (deliveries between 09/2005 and 03/2011)
	N	% (95 % CI)	N	%
Harare	1535	92.4 (89.1–94.8)	826	82.7
Manicaland	3564	75.3 (71.4–78.8)	843	60.9
Mashonaland Central	1504	70.5 (65.8–74.8)	603	50.3
Mashonaland West	1339	69.0 (63.2–74.2)	701	52.6
Matabeleland South	855	78.2 (72.4–83.0)	273	69.3
Mashonaland East	Not surveyed		530	59
Matebeleland North	Not surveyed		265	63.5
Midlands	Not surveyed		701	63.4
Masvingo	Not surveyed		627	73.4
Bulawayo	Not surveyed		227	88.3
Total (5 provinces selected in our survey)	8796	76.8 (73.9–79.5)	3246	63.4
Total (all 10 Zimbabwean provinces)	Not estimated		5596	65.1

PMTCT prevention of mother to child transmission of HIV, ZDHS Zimbabwe Demographic Health Survey, CI confidence interval
^a Percentage of facility-based deliveries among all live births in the 9–18 months prior to the survey (weighted estimates)
^b Percentage of facility-based deliveries among all live births in the five years prior to the survey

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