Determining the level of non-booking for antenatal care and associated barriers as well as risk for mother to child transmission of HIV among pregnant women in Chitungwiza city, Zimbabwe

Description

Master of Public Health - MPH / PMTCT is an effective strategy in preventing paediatric HIV infection. In
Zimbabwe the success of PMTCT is entirely dependent on pregnant women accessing
antenatal care services and through that, getting linked to PMTCT. Failure of pregnant women
to book for antenatal care through the course of pregnancy presents a missed opportunity for
PMTCT and a high risk for maternal HIV transmission. It is therefore important to determine
the burden of unbooked women and the factors associated with it, if elimination of maternal
HIV transmission is to be achieved in the country.

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1. http://hdl.handle.net/11394/7671

Tags

Antenatal care

Anti-retroviral therapy

Chitungwiza

Human immune-deficiency virus

Postnatal care

Additional Fields

Identifer	oai:union.ndltd.org:netd.ac.za/oai:union.ndltd.org:uwc/oai:etd.uwc.ac.za:11394/7671
Date	January 2020
Creators	Mandima, Patrica Fadzayi
Contributors	Lembani, Martina, Schaay, Nikki
Publisher	University of Western Cape
Source Sets	South African National ETD Portal
Language	English
Detected Language	English
Rights	University of Western Cape