The effectiveness of interventions to involve men living with HIV positive pregnant women in low-income countries: a systematic review of the literature

Table 2 The outcomes related to men involvement

	Proportion of pregnant women who attended ANC with their partners	Proportion of men who accepted routine antenatal HIV testing	HIV status of men/newly diagnosed	Proportion of newly diagnosed HIV-positive men linked to care	HIV testing outcomes*	Maternal and Child Health Outcomes**
Single Intervention
Interventions based on Invitation letter
Aluisio et al. [29]	X
Byamugisha et al. [24]	X	X
Krakowiak et al. [31]			X		X	X
Jefferys et al. [27]	X
Nyondo et al. [30]	X
Rosenberg et al. [32]	X		X	X
Intervention based on Word of encouragement
Aluisio et al. [6]		X	X	X		X
Multiple integrated components
Akama et al. [22]	X	X			X	X
Audet et al. [26]	X				X
Ezeanolue et al. [35]		X
Mphonda et al. [28]	X				X
Weiss et al. [36]	X				X

* Male HIV tested, Female knows male status, tested as couple Serodiscordant couples identified
** In Krakowian et al. [31] “Facility delivery, Exclusive breastfeeding at 6-weeks postpartum, Exclusive breastfeeding at 6-months postpartum then family-planning hormonal, intrauterine device, or sterilization use at six weeks postpartum and 6 months postpartum”. In Aluisio et al. [6] and Akama et al. [22] child health outcomes refer to mortality and HIV free survival and EID uptake infants (0–8 months), respectively

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