In 2018, researchers Elie Nkwabong, Romuald Meboulou Nguel, Nelly Kamgaing, and Anne Sylvie Keddi Jippe published, “Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices of Health Personnel of Maternities in the Prevention of Mother-To-Child Transmission of HIV in a sub-Saharan African Region with High Transmission Rate: Some Solutions Proposed,” in BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth. In their article, hereafter “Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices,” the authors state the aim of their study was to establish the knowledge, attitudes, and practices held by health professionals who worked in numerous maternal departments throughout Cameroon. They claimed that effective knowledge, attitudes, and practices would likely reduce mother-to-child, hereafter MTC, transmission of HIV. After finding a deficit in the knowledge, attitudes, and practices among a subset of health professionals, the authors recommended increased training, funding, and supervision to reduce MTC transmission of HIV throughout Cameroon.
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- “Knowledge, Attitudes, and Practices of Health Personnel of Maternities in the Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV...” (2018), by Elie Nkwabong, Romuald Meboulou Nguel, Nelly Kamgaing, and Anne Sylvie Keddi Jippe
- Darby, Alexis (Author)
- Jones, Sierra Hope (Author)
- Schnebly, Risa Aria (Editor)
- Arizona State University. School of Life Sciences. Center for Biology and Society. Embryo Project Encyclopedia. (Publisher)
- Arizona Board of Regents (Publisher)
- literature
- HIV-positive women
- HIV-positive children
- HIV (Viruses)
- HIV infections
- HIV-positive persons
- Midwife and patient
- Women midwives
- Midwives--Supply and demand
- Midwives
- Women's health services
- Nurse Midwives
- Nurse-Midwives
- Midwifery
- Maternal-Fetal Infection Transmission
- Mother-to-Child Transmission
- Infectious Disease Transmission, Vertical
- Human Immunodeficiency Virus
- HIV
- Publications
- Reproduction
- Disorders
- HIV-positive pregnant women
- HIV in pregnancy
- MTC transmission