Yours faithfully -- prevention of parent to child transmission (PPTCT).
The objective of this study is to find out the reasons behind drop out of the mothers from the prevention of parent to child transmission (PPTCT) programme, thereby going undiagnosed of their HIV serostatus. A retrospective 6-year study was undertaken among mothers attending antenatal clinic and the unbooked cases delivering at the medical college. The percentage of mothers taking pretest counselling was 95.19; 94.09 per cent agreed to have their blood tested among those who had registered at the antenatal clinic only. Of them, 33 were found to be seropositive, 12 being found in 2009 alone. But the daily average of unbooked cases delivering at this institution was 16.42 out of 28. And a huge number (58.9%) were unregistered ie, unknown HIV serostatus deliveries were taken place during this 6-year of study (2004-2009). By this study we have found out that our ignorance, work pressure and patients' lack of knowledge, fear of so called 'HIV-AIDS', social stigmas are creating the big gaps in PPTCT programme and thus made it unsuccessful.
Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Midnapur Medical College, Paschim Medinipur 721101.
Sabyasachi
S
Ray
Subhadeep
S
Basak
Hiralal
H
Konar
D000328:Adult; D015897:Comorbidity; D005260:Female; D006679:HIV Seropositivity / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000635:transmission*; D006801:Humans; D018445:Infectious Disease Transmission, Vertical / Q000517:prevention & control*; D011247:Pregnancy; D011251:Pregnancy Complications, Infectious / Q000453:epidemiology; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D055815:Young Adult