Background: Over the last decade, availability of antiretroviral therapy has increased
rapidly throughout Africa including Tanzania, with the result of children acquired HIV
through mother to child transmission lives longer. Many of them have entered into
puberty period where they are at high risk of HIV re-infection or becoming infected with
other STI’s, such as gonorrhea and unwanted pregnancy among the girls. In Tanzania,
about 23% of the total population are adolescents constituting to about 10.3 million.
Almost one in four (23%) girls between the ages of 15 and 19 has either given birth or is
pregnant. Between June 2011 and August 2013, I observed fifteen adolescent girls
living with HIV/AIDS who became pregnant and one among them died while known she
was pregnant. This indicates that, adolescent girls and boys engage in both safe and
unsafe sexual activities at an early stage.
Objective: To explore the knowledge, attitude and perception about unsafe sex and
teenage pregnancy among adolescent living with HIV/AIDS in Dar es salaam, Tanzania.