The national prevalence rate of HIV/AIDS in Ethiopia is 0.9%. This research has used clustering of HIV patients in Ethiopia to explore relationships between HIV patients within and between clusters. Therefore, the general objective of the study is to cluster HIV patients and to find out the factors that affect HIV within a group (cluster) and between groups (clusters) of HIV patients.
Method
Data Source and Study Design
The source of the data was obtained from the Ethiopian Demographic Health Survey (EDHS) conducted in 2016. It is a cross-sectional study design conducted from January 18, 2016 to June 27, 2016.
Statistical Analysis
Variables
Response variable: The response variable for this study is the HIV status of the respondents whose result is positive or negative, which can be recorded as binary (1 = positive, 0 = negative).
Poor adherence: those who missed their ART dose more than 10% per month.
Fair adherence: those who missed 5–10% of their ART doses.
Good adherence: those who missed less than 5% of their ART doses.
Mother-to-mother (M2M) support program: a peer support program which employs HIV-positive mothers to provide support and advice to HIV-positive pregnant women and mothers of HIV-exposed babies.
Option B+: the program that utilizes initiating triple ARV drugs for all pregnant HIV positive mothers and continues throughout their life.
ARV prophylaxis: the administration of ARV drugs to a newborn without documented HIV infection to reduce the risk of HIV acquisition.
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