Psychosocial support to HIV positive mothers in Malaysia primary care clinics
Overview HIV/AIDS HIV disease affecting 16,000 people each day ~ 40 million PLHA worldwide: 17.6 million are women and 2.7 million are children < 15 years old Total number of HIV positive until 2010 > 90,000 cases > 13,000 cases - death related from AIDS disease. The number of “new...
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2015
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| Online Access: | http://irep.iium.edu.my/42356/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/42356/1/Final_Psychosocial_support_to_HIV_%2B_mother_-6th_March_2015-_-1-.pdf http://irep.iium.edu.my/42356/2/WONCA_2015.pdf |
| Summary: | Overview HIV/AIDS
HIV disease affecting 16,000 people each day
~ 40 million PLHA worldwide: 17.6 million are women and 2.7 million are children < 15 years old
Total number of HIV positive until 2010 > 90,000 cases
> 13,000 cases - death related from AIDS disease.
The number of “new cases HIV positive in women” is increasing trends from 9.5% in 2000 to 19.1% in 2008.
From 1998 to 2006 - 1,042 HIV positive mothers identified in government health facilities and 35 HIV-infected babies were born - representing a crude vertical transmission rate of 3.2%.
In 2013 – The crude vertical transmission rate was 1.8% - adheres to the national perinatal Prevention Mother-to-Child Transmission (PMTCT) management protocol.
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