HIV and Infant Feeding Counselling: Challenges Faced by Nurse-Counsellors in Northern Tanzania
Language:
English
Series/Journal Title:
Human Resources for Health
Volume:
5
Issue:
18
Copyright:
2007
Pages:
27
Description:
Infant feeding is a subject of worry in prevention of mother to child transmission (pMTCT) programmes in settings where breastfeeding is normative. Nurse-counsellors, expected to counsel HIV-positive women on safer infant feeding methods as defined in national/international guidelines, are faced with a number of challenges. This study aims to explore the experiences and situated concerns of nurses working as infant feeding counsellors to HIV-positive mothers enrolled in pMTCT programmes in the Kilimanjaro region, northern Tanzania. [abstract]
Subject
Geographic Focus
Resource Type
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