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Health system facilitators
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• Invitation letters from health service inviting men to PMTCT [20, 38, 41, 47, 49].
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• Offering routine voluntary couple counselling [25, 37, 40, 42].
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• Provision of counselling services during non-working hours [40, 47].
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• Offering of counselling and testing for HIV at sites other than antenatal care [41, 47].
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• Availability of health personnel to encourage testing and facilitate disclosure [19].
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• Change from voluntary counselling and testing to routine counselling and testing [34].
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• Offering of counselling and testing for HIV within antenatal settings [47].
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• Differential targeting and offering of counselling and testing of HIV to men accompanying their wives to the delivery wards [23].
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• Holding of open discussions on free prenatal HIV testing for partners [35].
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• Differential counselling for HIV positive women [32].
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• Community sensitization activities [20].
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• Availability of anti-retroviral drugs in the health centre [20].
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Relationship dynamics factors
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• Monogamous marriage or cohabitation of partners [14;25;42].
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• Discussion of PMTCT within the couple [14, 48].
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• Sero-concordance for HIV [42].
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Male individual facilitators
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• Previous male testing for HIV [14, 44].
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• Providing men with time to consider PMTCT recommendations [33, 37].
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• Increased male knowledge concerning HIV and perceived benefits of PMTCT [19, 48].
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Female individual factors
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• Lack of financial dependence on the part of women [15].
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• Positive attitudes of women towards disclosure of their test results [46].
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