Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về y học được đăng trên tạp chí y học Wertheim cung cấp cho các bạn kiến thức về ngành y đề tài: Barriers to access prevention of mother-to-child transmission for HIV positive women in a well-resourced setting in Vietnam. | AIDS Research and Therapy BioMed Central Research Open Access Barriers to access prevention of mother-to-child transmission for HIV positive women in a well-resourced setting in Vietnam Thu Anh Nguyen 1 Pauline Oosterhoff2 Yen Pham Ngoc2 Pamela Wright2 and Anita Hardon3 Address 1Faculty of Public Health Hanoi Medical University Hanoi Vietnam 2Medical Committee Netherlands Vietnam Hanoi Vietnam and 3Amsterdam School of Social Science Research University of Amsterdam Amsterdam The Netherlands Email Thu Anh Nguyen - anhstat@ Pauline Oosterhoff - pauline_oosterhoff@ Yen Pham Ngoc - yenphamngoc@ Pamela Wright - Anita Hardon - ahardon@ Corresponding author Published 17 April 2008 Received 29 January 2008 AIDS Research and Therapy 2008 5 7 doi 1742-6405-5-7 Accepted 17 April 2008 This article is available from http content 5 1 7 2008 Nguyen et al licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background According to Vietnamese policy HIV-infected women should have access at least to HIV testing and Nevirapine prophylaxis or where available to adequate counselling HIV infection staging ARV prophylaxis and infant formula. Many studies in high HIV prevalence settings have reported low coverage of PMTCT services but there have been few reports from low HIV prevalence settings such as Asian countries. We investigated the access of HIV-infected pregnant women to PMTCT services in the well-resourced setting of the capital city Hanoi. Methods Fifty-two HIV positive women enrolled in a self-help group in Hanoi were consulted through in-depth interviews and bi-weekly meetings about their experiences in accessing PMTCT services. Results Only 44
