Intervention strategy to improve pmtct programme implementation for HIV-exposed children in a rural sub-district in North West province

Abstract

Despite the remarkable general decrease of mother-to-child transmission in the global HIV response, a high number, 84%, of child HIV infections are occurring in Sub-Saharan Africa, particularly in rural areas. Mother-to-child transmission in rural areas persists owing to several factors including inadequate implementation of prevention of mother-to-child transmission programmes. In order to achieve a target of zero new HIV infection in children born from women living with HIV, the involvement of professional nurses and mothers of children exposed to HIV in developing new intervention strategies that would improve the implementation of the prevention of mother-to-child transmission programme is undeniable.