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Knowledge and practice of the prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV guidelines amongst doctors and nurses at Odi Hospital, Tshwane District

Published in: South African Family Practice
Volume 58 , issue 5 , 2016 , pages: 167–171

DOI: 10.1080/20786190.2016.1228561

Author(s): Kingsley Ogbonna Department of Family Medicine and Primary Health Care, South Africa , Indiran Govender Department of Family Medicine and Primary Health Care, South Africa , John Tumbo Department of Family Medicine and Primary Health Care, South Africa

Keywords: AIDS , anti retroviral drugs , doctors and nurses , HIV , prevention of mother to child transmission

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Background: Almost 60 million people are infected with and 25 million people have already died from HIV/AIDS. Sub-Saharan Africa is the region most affected, with 67% of all people living with HIV and 91% of all new infections amongst children and 14 million children orphaned by HIV-related deaths. HIV can be transmitted from a pregnant mother to her child during pregnancy, birth or breastfeeding. In South Africa (SA) the mother-to-child HIV transmission (MTCT) rate is under 4% at 4 to 8 weeks after birth since implementation of the most recent national prevention of MTCT (PMTCT) programme.

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