نتایج جستجو برای: pmtct

تعداد نتایج: 1098  

2016
Pascal Geldsetzer H Manisha N Yapa Maria Vaikath Osondu Ogbuoji Matthew P Fox Shaffiq M Essajee Eyerusalem K Negussie Till Bärnighausen

INTRODUCTION The World Health Organization recommends lifelong antiretroviral therapy (ART) for all pregnant and breastfeeding women living with HIV. Effective transitioning from maternal and child health to ART services, and long-term retention in ART care postpartum is crucial to the successful implementation of lifelong ART for pregnant women. This systematic review aims to determine which i...

Journal: :International perspectives on sexual and reproductive health 2011
Harriet Birungi Francis Obare Anke van der Kwaak Jane Harriet Namwebya

CONTEXT Given the health risks of HIV/AIDS and the risks of teenage pregnancy in general, pregnant HIV-positive adolescents in Kenya need maternal health care services that account for their HIV status. However, research on their access to and use of these services is scant. METHODS To examine maternal health care utilization, pregnancy history data collected in 2009 on 506 pregnancies among ...

Journal: :African health sciences 2013
P J T Wangwe M Nyasinde D S K Charles

BACKGROUND Children living with HIV worldwide majority are infected through mother to child transmission of HIV (MTCT) acquired during pregnancy. Knowledge, attitude and behavioral changes are pivot tools towards success of any interventions. OBJECTIVES To determine the effectiveness of counseling on HIV done in primary health facilities (PHF), level of knowledge gained and attitude changes t...

2014
Ademola L. Adelekan Elizabeth R. Edoni Oladipupo S. Olaleye

Men's role in HIV prevention is pivotal to changing the course of the epidemic. Men's barriers toward participation in Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission (PMTCT) have not been adequately documented. This study is therefore designed to determine men's level of awareness and barriers to their participation in PMTCT programmes in Osogbo, Nigeria. This study was a descriptive qualitative on...

Journal: :Studies in family planning 2005
Naomi Rutenberg Carolyn Baek

This article reviews field experiences with provision of family planning services in prevention of mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT) programs in ten countries in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Family planning is a standard component of most antenatal care and maternal-child health programs within which PMTCT programs are offered. Yet PMTCT sites often miss opportunities to provide HIV-posi...

Journal: :AIDS Research and Therapy 2007
Lungiswa L Nkonki Tanya M Doherty Zelee Hill Mickey Chopra Nikki Schaay Carl Kendall

BACKGROUND The objective of this study was to examine missed opportunities for participation in a prevention of mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT) programme in three sites in South Africa. A rapid anthropological assessment was used to collect in-depth data from 58 HIV-positive women who were enrolled in a larger cohort study to assess mother-to-child HIV transmission. Semi-structured intervi...

Journal: :African journal of reproductive health 2014
Gloria Hamela Charity Kabondo Tapiwa Tembo Chifundo Zimba Esmie Kamanga Innocent Mofolo Bertha Bulla Christopher Sellers R C Nakanga Clara Lee Francis Martinson Irving Hoffman Charles van der Horst Mina C Hosseinipour

The objective of our intervention was to examine the benefits of incorporating traditional birth attendants (TBA) in HIV Prevention of Mother to Child Transmission (PMTCT) service delivery. We developed a training curriculum for TBAs related to PMTCT and current TBA roles in Malawi. Fourteen TBAs and seven TBA assistants serving 4 urban health centre catchment areas were assessed, trained and s...

Journal: :AIDS education and prevention : official publication of the International Society for AIDS Education 2013
Kevin Koo Jennifer D Makin Brian W C Forsyth

Efforts to prevent mother-to-child HIV transmission (PMTCT) in sub-Saharan Africa have focused overwhelmingly on women, to the unintended exclusion of their male partners. A cross-sectional study was conducted in Tshwane, South Africa, to determine barriers to male-partner participation during PMTCT. In-depth interviews were conducted with 124 men whose partners had recently been pregnant, and ...

2016
Reshmi Samuel Marc Noguera Julian Roger Paredes Raveen Parboosing Pravi Moodley Lavanya Singh Anneta Naidoo Michelle Gordon

Antiretroviral drug resistance following pMTCT strategies remains a significant problem. With rapid advancements in next generation sequencing technologies, there is more focus on HIV drug-resistant variants of low frequency, or the so-called minority variants. In South Africa, AZT monotherapy for pMTCT, similar to World Health Organization option A, has been used since 2008. In 2010, a single ...

Journal: :Bulletin of the World Health Organization 2012
W Mphatswe K S Mate B Bennett H Ngidi J Reddy P M Barker N Rollins

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the effect of an intervention to improve the quality of data used to monitor the prevention of mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT) of the human immunodeficiency virus in South Africa. METHODS The study involved 58 antenatal clinics and 20 delivery wards (37 urban, 21 rural and 20 semi-urban) in KwaZulu-Natal province that provided PMTCT services and reported data to the...

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