BACKGROUND Uganda began to implement the prevention of mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT) of HIV programme in 2000, and by the end of 2003 it had expanded to cover 38 of the 56 districts including Mbale District. However, reports from Mbale Hospital showed that less than 10% of pregnant women accepted antenatal HIV testing. We therefore conducted a study to determine the proportion of pregnan...

Pruritic urticarial papules and plaques of pregnancy (PUPPP) is a rare dermatosis of unknown etiology that is most frequently seen in primiparas and twin/multiple pregnancies. The prognosis is favorable. We report a case of PUPPP in a primipara and review the clinical signs, differential diagnosis, possible etiologic factors, diagnosis, and therapy.

Background: Rates of caesarean section are progressively increasing in many parts of the world. As a result of psychosocial factors, there has been an increasing tendency for pregnant women without justifiable medical indications for caesarean section to ask for this procedure in China. The psychosocial factors for requesting cesarean section were analyzed in our study. Methods: A self-made que...

Parity is a term that defines the number of children woman has. consists primiparas giving birth to one child, multiparas 2-4 children, and grand 5 or more with gestational age than 28 weeks. Women high parity have risk cervical cancer an odds ratio 2.65 times. Multiparas are at for preeclampsia compared primiparas, as well various health problems during pregnancy such hypertension in pregnancy...

Children's maternal, self, and marital representations were examined in 46 children 3 1/2 to 7 years old using the MacArthur Story Stem Battery. Children drawn from agencies serving battered women expressed fewer positive representations of their mothers and themselves, were more likely to portray interparental conflict as escalating, and were more avoidant and less coherent in their narratives...

<p><em>Failure to give exclusive breastfeeding infants can be caused by factors in the mother's condition such as confidence or self-efficacy provide breast milk her baby. Most primipara mothers have low due difficulties going through a role transition period and carrying out demands of their new mothers. Kangaroo mother care is method skin-to-skin contact between baby (skin-to-skin...