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PREVENTION OF MOTHER TO CHILD TRANSMISSION OF HIVE INFECTION
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The PMCT project was started in 2002. It is an initiative by
ASHA foundation to integrate PMTCT services into maternity care
programmes in three medical institutions in Bangalore - Kolar
region in Karnataka. The program includes training of PMTCT
counselors, their introduction into the antenatal clinics, voluntary
and free HIV testing for pregnant mothers, with pre- and post-
test counseling, primary prevention of HIV/AIDS and other STDs,
family planning measures, identification of HIV positive pregnant
mothers, further counseling for them to make informed choices
regarding ARV therapy, mode of delivery, mode of infant feeding,
family planning, HIV testing for the new-born child and their
integration into the medical and pediatric clinics of the Institution.
Our present partners are
- Bethesda Leprosy Hospital, Narasapur-AP
- CSI Campbell Hospital, Jammalamadagu-AP
- Salvation Army Evangeline Booth Hospital, Nidubrolu-AP
- Womens Hospital Ambajipeta-AP
- St. Joseph’s Hospital- Guntur-AP
- Christa Mitra Ashram Hospital, Ankola-Kar
- Hope Medical center-Kolar-Kar
- ETCM Hospital, Kolar-Kar
- Lombard Memorial Hospital, Udupi-Kar
- Seventh Day Adventist Hospital, Bangalore-Kar
- Bangalore Baptist Hospital, Bangalore-Kar
- CSI Mission Hospital, Bangalore-Kar
- Snehalaya Hospital, Solur-Kar
- CSI Mission Hospital, Codacal-Kerala
- Rural Health Training Centre, Kazhakuttom-Kerala
- Somervell Memorial CSI Hospital, Karakonam-Kerala
- LMS brigade Hospital-Kollam-Kerala
- Seventh Day Adventist Hospital, Ottapallam-Kerala
- Bethesda Hospital, Ambur-TN
- Bishop Walsh Memorial Hospital, Coimbatore-TN
- Christian Fellowship Hospital, Oddanchatram-TN
- CSI Hospital, Kancheepuram-TN
- Gnanadorai Hospital-TN
- Catherine Booth Hospital, Nagercoil-TN
By grafting PMTCT into the MCH programmes of these institutions, the project hopes to
sensitize the community on AIDS issues while reducing the incidence of AIDS through mother to child transmission.
At the conclusion of Dec. 2009, 65,000 women were counseled, 395 were HIV positive, and 267 had live births.
Out of the 202 new borns tested by PCR, 5 were HIV positive. So the transmission rate of HIV infection was
reduced from 30% to 2.4%.
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