Results 10 mothers had 14 pregnancies, resulting in a total of 14 live born children. The median age was 19.5 years, 7 were married and 3 were single. The most frequent transmission route was heterosexual (90 %). 3/10 fathers were unaware of HIV maternal status. 70 % had been previously diagnosed with HIV. All had HAART as MTCT prevention, with AZT+3TC+LPV/r; median viral load (VL) at delivery ...

BACKGROUND Strategies to reduce the risk of mother-to-child transmission of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) include lifelong antiretroviral therapy (ART) for HIV-positive women, exclusive breastfeeding from birth for six weeks plus nevirapine or replacement feeding plus nevirapine from birth for four to six weeks, elective Caesarean section delivery, and avoiding giving children chewed f...

I n resource-limited settings, there is a high risk of mother-to-child-transmission (MTCT) of HIV-1. The rate of MTCT without specifi c intervention and with an extended time of breast-feeding is about 35%– 40% [1], a fi gure that results in the infection of about 750,000 children every year worldwide [2]. A single dose of nevirapine can reduce the rate of MTCT by 42%, but it selects for drug-r...

Let us give credit to those pioneering funders and practitioners who have risked sacrificing the comfort of armchair critic status in favour of the partly successful but promising models upon which we can base our future successes. A decade after the early acrimonious engagements we now find clinicians on both sides of the table representing IPAs and managed care organisations — talks are still...

Due to HIV care improvement, discordant couples more frequently seek help in order to conceive their own biological child. Besides the advance of antiretroviral therapy, unprotected intercourse is not a complete safe option, carrying a low but still present risk of HIV transmission. We report 10 serodiscordant couples in whom the male partner is HIV positive, submitted to sperm washing and intr...

PURPOSE Administration of antiretroviral drugs to mothers and infants significantly decreases mother-to-child human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) transmission; cesarean sections and discouraging breastfeeding further decreases this risk. The present study confirmed the HIV status of babies born to mothers infected with HIV and describes the characteristics of babies and mothers who received prev...

How to cite this article: Owoaje ET, Omidokun AD, OK Ige. Knowledge and perception of Prevention of Mother to Child services amongst pregnant women accessing antenatal clinic in a Primary Health Care centre in Nigeria. Afr J Prm Health Care Fam Med. 2012;4(1), Art. #432, 7 pages. http:// dx.doi.org/ 10.4102/phcfm. v4i1.432 Background: Few studies have assessed pregnant women’s perceptions regar...