Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về sinh học được đăng trên tạp chí sinh học quốc tế đề tài : Health workers' views on quality of prevention of mother-to-child transmission and postnatal care for HIV-infected women and their children | Human Resources for Health BioMed Central Research Health workers views on quality of prevention of mother-to-child transmission and postnatal care for HIV-infected women and their children Thu Anh Nguyen 1 Pauline Oosterhoff2 Yen Ngoc Pham2 Anita Hardon3 and Pamela Wright2 Address faculty of Public Health Hanoi Medical University Hanoi Viet Nam 2Medical Committee Netherlands Vietnam Hanoi Viet Nam and 3Amsterdam School of Social Science Research University of Amsterdam Amsterdam the Netherlands Email Thu Anh Nguyen - anhstat@ Pauline Oosterhoff - pauline_oosterhoff@ Yen Ngoc Pham - yenphamngoc@ Anita Hardon - ahardon@ Pamela Wright - Corresponding author Open Access Published 13 May 2009 Received 15 July 2008 Human Resources for Health 2009 7 39 doi 1478-4491-7-39 Accepted I 3 May 2009 This article is available from http content 7 1 39 2009 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 Prevention of mother-to-child transmission has been considered as not a simple intervention but a comprehensive set of interventions requiring capable health workers. Viet Nam s extensive health care system reaches the village level but still HIV-infected mothers and children have received inadequate health care services for prevention of mother-to-child transmission. We report here the health workers perceptions on factors that lead to their failure to give good quality prevention of mother-to-child transmission services. Methods Semistructured interviews with 53 health workers and unstructured observations in nine health facilities in Hanoi were conducted. Selection of respondents was based on their function .
