@article{7acc8a99ba5c4b149ebecf3bc0e4612a,
title = "Addressing Prevention Among HIV-Uninfected Women in PMTCT Programs in South India",
abstract = "With nearly one million HIV-infected women in India, prevention of mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT) programs serve an important role. While PMTCT programs focus on mothers living with HIV infection, offering them to uninfected pregnant women may prevent maternal HIV infections. To inform future efforts to offer PMTCT programs to uninfected women, we conducted focus groups with 24 uninfected women in the South Indian state of Karnataka who had given birth within the previous 2 years to explore their perceptions and experiences about HIV education and screening during pregnancy. Although all the participants had undergone HIV testing at a public health facility during pregnancy, they reported little knowledge about HIV transmission or prevention. Revisions are needed in existing PMTCT program curricula and instruction methods before they can be offered to uninfected women as an HIV prevention strategy.",
keywords = "HIV prevention, India, health care, prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV, women",
author = "Hod Tamir and Karl Krupp and Stephens, {Dionne P.} and Tirajeh Zohourian and Dorcius, {Patricia Moise} and Anjali Arun and Fisher, {Celia B.} and Purnima Madhivanan",
note = "Funding Information: For their generous assistance on this project, the authors would like to thank all the participants in the study. Special thanks to Suvarna Ruchitha from PHRII for assisting on the project. The study was supported by the National Institutes of Health (NIH)/National Institute of Drug Abuse ( R25DA031608 ; PI Fisher). The views expressed by the authors do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Institute of Drug Abuse or the NIH. Hod Tamir was supported by the International Center for AIDS Care and Treatment Programs (ICAP)-Columbia University and by the National Institute of Allergy & Infectious Diseases of the National Institutes of Health under award number T32AI114398, as well as the Global Health Equity Scholar Fellowship R25 TW009338 funded by the Fogarty International Center, the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, the NIH Office of the Director Office of Research on Women's Health, and the NIH Office of the Director Office of AIDS Research. Karl Krupp was funded by Global Health Equity Scholar Fellowship D43 TW010540. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2017 Association of Nurses in AIDS Care",
year = "2018",
month = jan,
doi = "10.1016/j.jana.2017.10.006",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "29",
pages = "45--52",
journal = "Journal of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care",
issn = "1055-3290",
publisher = "Elsevier USA",
number = "1",
}