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Factors Influencing the Utilisation of Prevention of Mother-to-Child-Transmission (PMTCT) Services by Pregnant Women in the Eastern Cape; South Africa

Mfecane, S; Mosala, T; Nqeketo, A; Nqeketo, A; Peltzer, K; Shisana, O; Skinner, D.
Health SA Gesondheid (Print); 10 (1), 2005
"The aim of the study was to identify factors influencing the utilisation of Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission (PMTCT) in a resource poor setting in South Africa. A sample of 186 pregnant women (29.6HIV positive and 70.4HIV negative) in four clinics in a rural district in the Eastern Cape were i...
HIV

Meaning-Making of a Group of South Africans in their Experience of Living with HIV : a Phenomenological study

Goldstein, N; Pretorius, H. G; Stuart, A.
Health SA Gesondheid (Print); 10 (1), 2005
With the primary focus of disease specific studies on the medical and biological transmission and progression of HIV/AIDS; the lived experience and meaning-making of individuals who live with this disease; is a literary scarcity. Similarly; the idiosyncratic meaning-making of middle class citizens diagno...
HIV

Prevention of HIV and other STIs in rural Senegal: a study of prevention-related events collected by sentinel observers

Enel, C; Wade, A.
SAHARA Journal of Social Aspects of HIV/AIDS Research Alliance; 2 (2), 2005
We conducted a study of AIDS/STI prevention-related events based on a network of sentinel observers over a 35-month period in three rural communities of Senegal (May 2000 - March 2003). In one of these communities we also conducted a population-based study on self-reported prevention events and attitudes...
HIV