RESEARCH ARTICLE Disclosure experience to p n n

Full list of author information is available at the end of the articleBackground Disclosure of HIV status has become an entry criterion for prevention of mother to child transmission programs in resource-constrained countries [1,2]. However, little has been explored about the prevalence of, barriers to, outcomes and factors associated with HIV status disclos-ure among HIV positive pregnant women in Ethiopia. Disclosure benefits both the individual and the public. To the individual, benefits include less anxiety and [1,3] increased social support. Studies showed that there are (l) about 2.3 million children under 15 years living with AIDS in the world, and the vast majority of these were in Sub-Saharan Africa. Mother-to-child transmission of HIV is associated with up to 90 % of all infection in children up to six years [4,5]. It is estimated that without any intervention about 35% of children born to HIV infected mothers will be infected with the virus. This percentage has reportedly been re-duced to levels as low as 2 % in developed countries with the advent of antiretroviral drugs and the implementation of core PMTCT intervention [6,7]. In addition, a larger proportion of studies from devel-oping countries reported that women did not share thei