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Infant Feeding Practices of HIV positive Mothers in Lusaka District
… objective of the study was to determine whether HIV positive women do provide mixed feeding to their infants contrary to WHO/UNICEF recommendation. A total of 125 HIV positive mothers and 125 HIV negative mothers were recruited for the study. Both groups were identified from the PMTCT register at …
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Infant Feeding Practices of HIV positive Mothers in Lusaka District
… objective of the study was to determine whether HIV positive women do provide mixed feeding to their infants contrary to WHO/UNICEF recommendation. A total of 125 HIV positive mothers and 125 HIV negative mothers were recruited for the study. Both groups were identified from the PMTCT register at …
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The resilience of children of HIV positive mothers with regard to the mother-child relationship
… to the mother-child relationship, where the mothers are infected with HIV&AIDS. Themes of resilience were investigated within the framework of positive psychology. A study of limited scope was conducted from a phenomenological paradigm. I followed a mixed method methodological paradigm based …
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Effects of maternal social factors on infant feeding practices among HIV positive mothers in Kasama Northern Province
Against a background of a high HIV prevalence among pregnant women and an absence of interventions to curb HIV transmission to children associated with high HIV infant and childhood mortality and morbidity in Africa, this study was undertaken to determine the social factors that influence infant …
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Effects of maternal social factors on infant feeding practices among HIV positive mothers in Kasama Northern Province
Against a background of a high HIV prevalence among pregnant women and an absence of interventions to curb HIV transmission to children associated with high HIV infant and childhood mortality and morbidity in Africa, this study was undertaken to determine the social factors that influence infant …
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The prevention of mother to child transmission programme (PMTCT) experiences of HIV positive mothers at Tonga hospital in Nkomazi East
Mother To Child Transmission (MTCT) of HIV is a major challenge in Sub-Saharan Africa due to a variety of socio-economic and political factors. In South Africa, for example, there was element of denialism by government on the fact that treatment could assist in reducing the likelihood of …
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Determinants of adherence to the exclusive breast feeding option among HIV Positive mothers in eight selected health centres in Lusaka District
… in the context of Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) remains a challenge especially when the infant is HIV negative because breastmilk may contain HIV. Some studies have shown a consistent lower risk postnatal HIV transmission from mother to infant of about 4% among exclusively breastfed infants …
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Determinants of adherence to the exclusive breast feeding option among HIV Positive mothers in eight selected health centres in Lusaka District
… in the context of Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) remains a challenge especially when the infant is HIV negative because breastmilk may contain HIV. Some studies have shown a consistent lower risk postnatal HIV transmission from mother to infant of about 4% among exclusively breastfed infants …
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An assessment of the factors that influence the infant feeding practices of HIV-positive mothers in The Mothers' Programmes : a qualitative study
… can transmit the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) from mother to baby (White, 1999). A woman infected with HIV may pass the virus on to her child via pregnancy, labour or delivery or through breastfeeding (WHO, 2003). In developing countries where the prevalence of HIV/AIDS is high, …
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Factors influencing the choices of infant feeding of HIV-positive mothers in southern Ghana: the role of counsellors, mothers, families and socio-economic status
This study assessed the perspectives of HIV-positive mothers and family members (i.e., grandmothers and fathers) of infant feeding options for HIV-positive mothers in southern Ghana. This entailed individual interviews with 40 HIV-positive mothers with infants, and 6 focus group discussions with …
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Determinants Of Infant Feeding Practices Of Hiv-Positive And Hiv-Negative Mothers In Pretoria, South Africa
… to result in lowered risk of postnatal vertical HIV transmission compared to mixed breastfeeding (Mixed BF). Early breastfeeding cessation, or not breastfeeding at all, is associated with an increase in morbidity and mortality amongst both HIV-exposed and HIV-unexposed infants. The South African …
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Effectiveness of Prevention from Mother to Child Transmission Program in Reducing HIV/AIDS to Children in Kinondoni District
… Child Transmission (PMTCT) program in reducing HIV/AIDS to children in Kinondoni District, in order to understand the success and the setbacks of the program in reducing HIV transmission from mother to child. In this study the researcher used simple random sampling without replacement and …
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Assessment of the association between HIV-infected mothers and the mortality of children less than two years in Khayelitsha health district of the Western Cape : a case-control study
… However, the South African National antenatal HIV zero-prevalence increased from less than 1% in 1990 to 30% in 2005- This increase in HIV prevalence coincided with an increase in child deaths- This has been attributed to mother to-child transmission of HIV/AIDS- There has been insufficient …
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The operational effectiveness of a single dose Nevirapine prevention of mother to child transmission of HIV/AIDS programme in Khomas region, Namibia
… the distribution of certain variables among HIV exposed infants including the socio economic variables such as age, sex and the breast feeding practices of their mothers. A total of 451 HIV positive mothers and their infant pairs` record registers were reviewed in two hospitals of Khomas …
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Growth of HIV Exposed and Unexposed Infants
… driver of child mortality in South Africa is the HIV/AIDS epidemic. An understanding of the interactions between malnutrition and HIV is therefore important, especially for vulnerable groups such as infants. This study is aimed to report on growth, in the first 36 weeks of life, of infants in …
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An investigation into the role of HIV exposure status in infectious disease mortality in children in Western Cape
… whether there is an association between HIV exposure and infectious disease mortality in children admitted to hospital in the Western Cape. Also to identify additional risk factors associated with mortality and the prevalence of HIV exposure. Methods: A case-control design was used to …
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Factors influencing utilization and adherence to Prevention of Mother to Child Transmission of HIV/AIDS services in Rivers State, Nigeria
… (PMTCT) of Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) depends on viable and efficient health systems, adherence to and utilization of services. Despite strategies to provide access to PMTCT of HIV services, utilization of these services remain low in Nigeria thereby increasing child morbidity and …
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Separation and purification of mucins and tenascin-C in breast milk of patients and the investigation of the role of mucins and tenascin-C in the inhibition of HIV-1
An estimated 36.7 million people were living with HIV in 2015, with 2.1 million newly infected people with HIV in 2015 worldwide. The highest prevalence of HIV in 2015 was in the Eastern and Southern African regions. This highlights the importance for research in this field to further prevent the …
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The influence of maternal HIV status on mortality in children under the age of five years
… to 25 deaths by 2030 (United Nations 2015). HIV/AIDS is one of the leading causes of mortality in Zambia and has contributed to the slow decline of under-five mortality (Garenne and Gakusi 2006). Children under the age of five years get infected with HIV mainly through vertical transmission …
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Breastfeeding and infant feeding in the era of HIV: A case of two districts in Zambia
Research has shown that exclusively breastfed HIV exposed infants have lower mortality and morbidity. It is against this background that the United Nations World Health Organisation (WHO) recommended that infants born to HIV positive women should be exclusively breastfed until replacement feeding …
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