Attitudes to routine HIV counselling and testing, and knowledge about prevention of mother to child transmission of HIV in eastern Uganda: a cross-sectional survey among antenatal attendees

Table 2 Participants' opinions and experiences about routine HIV testing among 388 new antenatal attendees, Mbale, Uganda

Participant's rating of	Responses
	Very good/good n (%)	Fair/bad/very bad n (%)
the visit to antenatal clinic	308 (79.4)	80 (20.6)
the handling by clinic staff	344 (88.7)	44 (11.3)
the total waiting time in clinic	286 (73.7)^a	102 (26.3)^b
the clinic facilities	322 (83.0)	66 (17.0)
the health education talk	350 (90.2)	38 (9.8)
the pre-test HIV counselling	335 (86.3)	53 (13.7)
the post-test HIV counselling	369 (95.1)	19 (4.9)
the routine HIV testing^c	382 (98.5)	6 (1.5)

^aNot long waiting time
^bToo long waiting time
^cParticipants were asked, "Nowadays in this clinic, all mothers are tested for HIV unless they say no. What do you think about this system?" Responses included "very bad", "bad", "fair", "good" and "very good". The responses, "good" and "very good", were taken as positive attitudes towards routine HIV testing.