HIV positive pregnant women in Cape Town Face barriers in the public service sector
Imogen Vollenhoven
14 December 2012
Infected pregnant women in Cape Town face barriers in accessing public sector services, says a study conducted at UCT.
Dr Kathryn Stinson’s research focuses on the delivery of public sector services to prevent mother-to-child transmission of HIV in the Free State and Western Cape provinces.
Her PhD thesis examines specifically pregnant mother to child transmission service implementation in Cape Town.
Dr Kathryn Stinson adds that her research looked at prevention of mother to child transmission services in Cape Town and she found that the uptake of life long anti retroviral therapy in pregnant women were just over 50 percent.
She adds that the found that pregnant women face significant challenges to initiating anti-retrovirals in pregnancy and that there is a need for gaining up of integrated maternal and HIV services which also supports the psycho social needs of pregnant HIV positive women in Cape Town.
14 December 2012
Infected pregnant women in Cape Town face barriers in accessing public sector services, says a study conducted at UCT.
Dr Kathryn Stinson’s research focuses on the delivery of public sector services to prevent mother-to-child transmission of HIV in the Free State and Western Cape provinces.
Her PhD thesis examines specifically pregnant mother to child transmission service implementation in Cape Town.
Dr Kathryn Stinson adds that her research looked at prevention of mother to child transmission services in Cape Town and she found that the uptake of life long anti retroviral therapy in pregnant women were just over 50 percent.
She adds that the found that pregnant women face significant challenges to initiating anti-retrovirals in pregnancy and that there is a need for gaining up of integrated maternal and HIV services which also supports the psycho social needs of pregnant HIV positive women in Cape Town.
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