The Cottolengo Mission Hospital has a PMTCT (prevention of mother to child transmission of HIV): this is a service provided by the hospital through the MCH (mother-child health) clinic to ensure that the mothers who are HIV infected are advised and taken care of accordingly. It is the duty of the nurse attending them to instruct and follow the mothers up to delivery.
This service is aiming at including the partners/spouse as well. This program has been revised to incorporate the partner. The hospital, through you cooperation, tries to achieve the following objectives.
Objectives
To have 100% testing on mothers
100% testing on new born infants on follow up
100% prevention care and behaviour change advise to mothers
100% capturing and testing of partners and older children of the couple.
100% prevention of malaria and anemia in pregnancy
In order to achieve the objectives the hospital must ensure that it has the following resources at hand
- A regular nurse for clinic in order to capture and do the testing of mothers, partners, new-born and other children who would require our attention
- The HIV test kits available all the year long
- The drugs for malaria and anemia available all the year long
- Start up outreach moments (seminars, meeting) for sensitization of the general population
- Provide food supplements to the mothers who are found to be positive.
- Ensure that all opportunistic infections of the mothers and newborns is prevented or treated
Brother Beppe Gaido
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