Addressing prevention among HIV-uninfected women in PMTCT programs in South India
With nearly one million HIV-infected women in India, prevention of mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT) programs serve an important role. While PMTCT programs focus on mothers living with HIV infection, offering them to uninfected pregnant women may prevent maternal HIV infections. To inform future efforts to offer PMTCT programs to uninfected women, we conducted focus groups with 24 uninfected women in the South Indian state of Karnataka who had given birth within the previous 2 years to explore their perceptions and experiences about HIV education and screening during pregnancy.
Source: Journal of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care - Category: Nursing Authors: Hod Tamir, Karl Krupp, Dionne P. Stephens, Tirajeh Zohourian, Patricia MoiseDorcius, Anjali Arun, Celia B. Fisher, Purnima Madhivanan Source Type: research
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