Fig. 1

Diagram of mother-baby pairs recruitment into the study. A total of 476 mother-baby pairs were eligible for this study. We sampled 437 mother-baby pairs but 22 could not be traced for the face-to-face interviews. We therefore, collected data from 415 mother-baby pairs. However, we excluded five mother-baby pairs from the final analysis because they lacked or had unclear important variables like appointment dates missed, which were very important in determining non-retention in HIV care.