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September 20-22, 2017 | Toronto, Canada
10 TH AMERICAN PEDIATRICS HEALTHCARE &
PEDIATRIC INFECTIOUS DISEASES CONGRESS
Pediatric Healthcare & Pediatric Infections 2017
Antenatal care plays a critical role in the health of pregnant women.
We carried out a qualitative research to analyse women’s compliance
to biomedical norms recommended to reduce the risk of mother-to-child
transmission of HIV during pregnancy and childbirth in the rural province
of Maputo. The study consisted of in-depth interviews and focus group
discussions with women who had become mothers, in-depth interviews
with community healthworkers and semi-structured interviews withmother
and child health nurses. We used Bourdieu’s theory of practice as a guiding
framework to analyse the data. Our findings showed that participants
complied with some recommended biomedical norms to reduce the risk of
mother-to-child transmission of HIV, such as subsequent antenatal visits,
adherence to antiretroviral therapy and childbirth at the health facility.
However, they did not comply with the timing of the first antenatal care,
use of modern health care system to treat illness episodes and use of
condom during pregnancy. The study results suggest, that compliance to the
recommended prevention of mother-to-child transmission is the result of
complex interactions in which participants rely on knowledge and resources
within both the family and community and the modern health care system.
Awareness among health care workers of pregnant women’s perspectives as
well as an adequate education about the timing of the first antenatal care
and the benefits of antenatal care in both the health facility and community
could thus enable to improve prevention of mother-to-child transmission
of HIV.
Speaker Biography
Carlos Eduardo Cuinhane is a PhD Student at Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium. He is
a Member of Research Centre Gender, Diversity and Intersectionality (RHEA), Brussels.
He is a Sociologist and Anthropologist. He is a Lecturer and Researcher at Eduardo
Mondlane University, Mozambique
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Understanding HIV-positive experiences with antenatal care in Mozambique
Carlos Eduardo Cuinhane1, 2
1Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
2Eduardo Mondlane University, Mozambique