Perceptions of midwives and pregnant women of the prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV programme at the ante-natal care unit and maternity ward at the Johan Heyns community health centre in tne Sedibeng District, Gauteng
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Authors
Thithi, Potetsa Elizabeth
Issue Date
2014-02
Type
Dissertation
Language
en
Keywords
Midwives , Women pregnancy , Women and HIV , HIV prevention , Mother to child transmission , HIV transmission , Antenatal care , Maternity ward
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Abstract
The study reports on the perceptions of the midwives and pregnant women of the
PMTCT of HIV programme at the antenatal care and maternity ward at the Johan Heyns
Community Health Centre. A qualitative approach was adopted to conduct the study.
Purposive sampling was used to select participants and was informed by social
behavioural theories. Data was collected using interviews and analysed using thematic
categorisation. The findings show that at the first PMTCT encounter participants had
little to no knowledge of the PMTCT programme, generally displayed a lack of interest,
experienced emotional distress, and fear at the thought of having to disclosing their
HIV-positive status to their partners/family and had certain trepidations about
participating in the PMTCT programme. The participants’ perception on their roles was
that their roles were interlinked, midwife needs the recipients (pregnant woman) and
pregnant woman needs the provider (midwife) therefore one cannot do PMTCT without
the other. The study recommends that the capacity building of pregnant women be
optimised, that PMTCT awareness campaigns for women of childbearing age should be
a priority and PMTCT skills to be prerequisite for midwives deployed to ANC clinics and
maternity ward units.
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Citation
Thithi, Potetsa Elizabeth (2014) Perceptions of midwives and pregnant women of the prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV programme at the ante-natal care unit and maternity ward at the Johan Heyns community health centre in tne Sedibeng District, Gauteng, University of South Africa, Pretoria, <http://hdl.handle.net/10500/18667>