Download or read book A Comparison of Knowledge Attitudes and Practices of Pregnant Women Attending an Urban and a Rural Antenatal Clinic Regarding Mother to Child Transmission and HIV written by Ricardo Augustus McNichol and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Mind Heart and Soul in the Fight Against Poverty written by Katherine Marshall and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2004 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the diversity of collaboration between faith institutions and development agencies. ranging from community level interventions in support of excluded populations, work on education, health, and HIV/AIDS, restoring communities after conflicts, and global efforts to bring greater clarity and meaning to challenges such as poor country debt, labor and the struggle against poverty. What is emerging is a set of new partnerships which are founded on common concerns for the welfare of poor communities and the global cause of social justice. The need for broader and clearer insight, and for creative efforts to see and understand the whole, emerge as fundamental lessons of recent decades of development experience.
Download or read book Assessment of Knowledge Attitude and Practice of Pregnant Women in Respect of Prevention of Mother To Child Transmission PMTCT of HIV AIDS at a Selected Antenatal Clinic in Durban South Africa written by Samira Navazandeh Haghdoost and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Gender Dimensions of HIV Status Disclosure to Sexual Partners written by Suzanne Maman and published by . This book was released on 2003-05 with total page 65 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This review paper synthesizes the current information available on HIV status disclosure in terms of rates barriers and outcomes of HIV status disclosure among HIV-infected individuals. Particular emphasis is placed on women's experiences with disclosure to sexual partners. The report also aims to identify major barriers and describe programmatic and policy strategies that have been adopted to address these barriers and support women through the disclosure process.
Download or read book The knowledge attitudes and practice of pregnant women attending antenatal care at Lucrecia paim government maternity hospital Luanda Angola on the prevention of mother to child transmission of HIV PMTCT written by H. I. Chiamonwu and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Parenting Matters written by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2016-11-21 with total page 525 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Decades of research have demonstrated that the parent-child dyad and the environment of the familyâ€"which includes all primary caregiversâ€"are at the foundation of children's well- being and healthy development. From birth, children are learning and rely on parents and the other caregivers in their lives to protect and care for them. The impact of parents may never be greater than during the earliest years of life, when a child's brain is rapidly developing and when nearly all of her or his experiences are created and shaped by parents and the family environment. Parents help children build and refine their knowledge and skills, charting a trajectory for their health and well-being during childhood and beyond. The experience of parenting also impacts parents themselves. For instance, parenting can enrich and give focus to parents' lives; generate stress or calm; and create any number of emotions, including feelings of happiness, sadness, fulfillment, and anger. Parenting of young children today takes place in the context of significant ongoing developments. These include: a rapidly growing body of science on early childhood, increases in funding for programs and services for families, changing demographics of the U.S. population, and greater diversity of family structure. Additionally, parenting is increasingly being shaped by technology and increased access to information about parenting. Parenting Matters identifies parenting knowledge, attitudes, and practices associated with positive developmental outcomes in children ages 0-8; universal/preventive and targeted strategies used in a variety of settings that have been effective with parents of young children and that support the identified knowledge, attitudes, and practices; and barriers to and facilitators for parents' use of practices that lead to healthy child outcomes as well as their participation in effective programs and services. This report makes recommendations directed at an array of stakeholders, for promoting the wide-scale adoption of effective programs and services for parents and on areas that warrant further research to inform policy and practice. It is meant to serve as a roadmap for the future of parenting policy, research, and practice in the United States.
Download or read book The State of the World s Children 2009 written by UNICEF. and published by UNICEF. This book was released on 2008 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Having a child remains one of the biggest health risks for women worldwide. Fifteen hundred women die every day while giving birth. That's a half a million mothers every year. UNICEF's flagship publication, The State of the World's Children 2009, addresses maternal mortality, one of the most intractable problems for development work.The difference in pregnancy risk between women in developing countries and their peers in the industrialised world is often termed the greatest health divide in the world. A woman in Niger has a one in seven chance of dying during the course of her lifetime from complications during pregnancy or delivery. That's in stark contrast to the risk for mothers in America, where it's one in 4,800 or in Ireland, where it's just one in 48,000. Addressing that gap is a multidisciplinary challenge, requiring an emphasis on education, human resources, community involvement and social equality. At a minimum, women must be guaranteed antenatal care, skilled birth attendants and emergency obstetrics, and postpartum care. These essential interventions will only be guaranteed within the context of improved education and the abolition of discrimination.
Download or read book Disease Control Priorities Third Edition Volume 2 written by Robert Black and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2016-04-11 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The evaluation of reproductive, maternal, newborn, and child health (RMNCH) by the Disease Control Priorities, Third Edition (DCP3) focuses on maternal conditions, childhood illness, and malnutrition. Specifically, the chapters address acute illness and undernutrition in children, principally under age 5. It also covers maternal mortality, morbidity, stillbirth, and influences to pregnancy and pre-pregnancy. Volume 3 focuses on developments since the publication of DCP2 and will also include the transition to older childhood, in particular, the overlap and commonality with the child development volume. The DCP3 evaluation of these conditions produced three key findings: 1. There is significant difficulty in measuring the burden of key conditions such as unintended pregnancy, unsafe abortion, nonsexually transmitted infections, infertility, and violence against women. 2. Investments in the continuum of care can have significant returns for improved and equitable access, health, poverty, and health systems. 3. There is a large difference in how RMNCH conditions affect different income groups; investments in RMNCH can lessen the disparity in terms of both health and financial risk.
Download or read book WHO Recommendations on Antenatal Care for a Positive Pregnancy Experience written by World Health Organization and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Within the continuum of reproductive health care, antenatal care provides a platform for important health-care functions, including health promotion, screening and diagnosis, and disease prevention. It has been established that, by implementing timely and appropriate evidence-based practices, antenatal care can save lives. Endorsed by the United Nations Secretary-General, this is a comprehensive WHO guideline on routine antenatal care for pregnant women and adolescent girls. It aims to complement existing WHO guidelines on the management of specific pregnancy-related complications. The guidance captures the complex nature of the antenatal care issues surrounding healthcare practices and delivery, and prioritizes person-centered health and well-being --- not only the prevention of death and morbidity --- in accordance with a human rights-based approach.
Download or read book Women s Knowledge on Mother To Child Transmission of HIV AIDS written by Temesgen Shibru and published by LAP Lambert Academic Publishing. This book was released on 2015-05-28 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mother-to-child transmission of HIV is the major source of HIV infection among children under the age of 15 years. Within the prevention programs, package of services including HIV counseling and testing, provision of prophylactic antiretroviral (ARV) drugs for mothers and babies, safe delivery practices and awareness creation of MTCT and PMTC of HIV are the main points. This study is thus to model women's knowledge on mother-to-child transmission of HIV during pregnancy in terms of some predictors. The data obtained from the 2011 EDHS with 15827 women in the age group 15-49 years. Binary logistic regression and descriptive statistical measures were applied. Women who attained higher education level have (81.3%) good knowledge about MTCT of HIV than women who educated secondary and less. The percent of knowing MTCT of HIV increase as education level increase. Among 33.2% of urban women, about 76.6% of them have knowledge about MTCT of HIV. According to the result of logistic regression, age, education level, religion, region, place of residence, frequency of reading newspaper, frequency of listening radio and HIV testing plays significance role in determining women's knowledge.
Download or read book Attitudes Knowledge and Behaviour of HIV Positive Pregnant Women Attending Antenatal Care in Buffalo City Metropolitan District East London Towards Prevention of Mother to Child Transmission PMTCT written by Florence Nozakhe Skoti Matroshe and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Exploring the Knowledge Attitudes and Practices of Pregnant Women on Infant Feeding Methods for Prevention of Mother to Child Transmission of HIV in a Regional Hospital of EThekwini District written by Sibongile Thulisiwe Khanyile and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Antenatal Care in Developing Countries written by Carla Abou Zahr and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Community based Approaches to Prevention of Mother to child Transmission of HIV written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Index Medicus written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 1666 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vols. for 1963- include as pt. 2 of the Jan. issue: Medical subject headings.
Download or read book Community Perceptions Attitudes and Knowledge Regarding Mother to Child Transmission of HIV written by Sifelani Mtombeni and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Each year approximately 600 000 infants, most of them in Sub-Saharan Africa are born with HIV infection as a result of mother to child transmission of HIV. Whereas significant progress has been made in reduction of mother to child transmission of HIV in developed countries, the situation remains desperate in developing countries. Progress has been hampered by shortage of staff, facilities, limited access to voluntary counselling and testing and lack of support for women by their partners and communities. The challenge is to increase voluntary counselling and testing uptake during antenatal care. Onandjokwe district in Northern Namibia is currently introducing the Prevention of Mother to Child Transmission Program (PMTCT). It has been found the previous PMTCT programs have failed because they adopted a top down approach where there was no community consultation. This study was conducted to explore the community perceptions, knowledge and attitudes regarding mother to child transmission of HIV through focus group discussions and in-depth interviews of key community members.
Download or read book Ghanaian Pregnant Women s Knowledge Attitudes and Intentions Regarding Prenatal Voluntary Testing of HIV and Infant Feeding written by Yi-Kyoung Lee and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 582 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this study was to examine the culturally sensitive information regarding the factors that permit Ghanaian pregnant women to make an informed decision on infant feeding methods, with special attention to prenatal voluntary human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) testing and infant feeding. Focus group discussions (n=10), in-person interviews (n=403), and a follow-up study (n=41) were conducted based on an integrated model of the Theory of Reasoned Action/Planned Behavior and the Health Belief Model. Ghanaian pregnant women's intention of prenatal voluntary testing of HIV was low, but their intention would have increased significantly with a health professional's recommendation. Their intention about voluntary testing was well predicted by high self-efficacy about the testing, followed by no history of previous HIV testing. Participants generally had a high knowledge about transmission modes of HIV including mother-to-child transmission (MTCT), but misconceptions were also common. Lack of knowledge about the prevention methods of MTCT was evident and this was strongly associated with a lower intention of having a prenatal voluntary testing. Most women preferred exclusive breastfeeding to formula feeding at least during the first month due mainly to the protective property of breast milk for their infants. Almost all women intended to feed breast milk exclusively during the first month and the best predictor of exclusive breastfeeding intention was self-efficacy, followed by attitudes toward exclusive breastfeeding. Because of its recognized negative health consequences, only a small number of pregnant women intended to introduce formula within one month. If the distribution of subsidized formula for HIV-positive women were under-regulated, the spillover effects of formula feeding to children born to HIV-negative mothers or mothers of unknown status is likely to occur especially among those women who had favorable attitudes toward formula feeding. An 'opt-out' approach of voluntary counseling and testing of HIV and a systematic nutrition education program including the risks and benefits of exclusive breastfeeding and formula feeding should be routinely offered to all pregnant women to enable them to make an informed infant feeding decision.
