Reviewer ’s report  
Title: The role of counseling on modern contraceptive uti lization among HIV positive women: 
The case of North West Ethiopia  
 
Version: 0 Date: 23 Jul 2017  
 
Reviewer: Margareth Zanchetta  
 
Reviewer's report:  
Dear authors,  
 
In order to allow you to better identify the specific sentences requiring clarification, modification 
and expansion I am providing my written comments on the pdf file as well as some overall 
comments as a text. Please take all comments, questions, and sugg estions as areas for 
improvement in your manuscript. I do strongly recommend having a professional English editor 
to refine the scholarly writing style. Hope my comments be useful to enhance the quality of your 
manuscript. A special consideration goes to t he ethics perspective of conducting a study with 
vulnerable population and their overall protection. It is rare to see a study with 98.8% of 
participation rate. Not sure if there is some issues of social desirability to be also described and 
discussed in y our manuscript.  
 
Are the methods appropriate and well described?  
If not, please specify what is required in your comments to the authors.  
No 
Does the work include the necessary controls?  
If not, please specify  which controls are required in your comments to the authors.  
Unable to assess  
Are the conclusions drawn adequately supported by the data shown?  
If not, please explain in your comments to the authors.  
Unable to assess  
Are you able to assess any statistics in the manus cript or would you recommend an 
additional statistical review?  
If an additional statistical review is recommended, please speci fy what aspects require further 
assessment in your comments to the editors.  
I recommend additional statistical review  
Quality of written English  
Please indicate the quality of language in the manuscri pt: 
Needs some language corrections before being published  
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