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Factors Influencing The Utilization Of Prevention Of Mother–to-child Transmission (pmctc) Services Among Pregnant Women Attending Clinic
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1.4 Significance of the Study
Health
workers and parents may find the information on the factors influencing
the Utilization of Prevention of Mother–To-Child Transmission (PMTCT)
services useful to check whether their local hospitals provide full
PMTCT programme and to press for improvement in line with the
recommendations that will be made for the benefits of mothers of child
bearing age and their infants.
The information may also be helpful to
hospital administrators to reorganize and train their staff for full
PMTCT programme implementation in their hospitals in realizing their
responsibilities in health care provision for pregnant women especially
those that are seropositive and their children who vertically acquired
the HIV.
The findings generated on the availability of PMTCT services
may help pregnant women to know the hospitals that provide the
services. This will help to increase the level of utilization of the
services by the target group and there will be improvement on quality of
life.
The information will also help service providers to intensify
public enlightenment programme on the need for HIV positive pregnant
mothers to make use of the services. The data generated may help to see
the need to establish more PMTCT sites.
The findings obtained from
the availability of qualified of PMTCT service providers will help
hospital administrators in planning and using multiple approaches to
training and retraining the service providers to improve on their
skills. The data may also provide basis to recruit qualified staff for
rendering PMTCT services in their hospitals.
The findings will help
hospital administrators to facilitate procurement of more materials for
PMTCT. Donor agencies may also be motivated to procure these materials
for the hospitals. The data may also help the hospitals management to
solicit for material help from World Health Organization.
The
information on the adequacy of qualified PMTCT service providers will
help hospital management to train more PMTCT service providers. The
information may also help the government to restrict service providers
from migrating to other countries for job .This will invariably place a
check on brain drain in the county.
By providing information on the
adequacy of PMTCT materials, service providers will be motivated and
encouraged to create awareness to pregnant women for maximum utilization
of the services. The government will accelerate action to achieve the
goal of eliminating HIV infection in infants and young children.
The
information generated will help the service providers to be motivated to
create awareness in rural areas to provide bases for pregnant women to
attend antenatal care. This may also help hospitals management to know
the capability of workers in their hospitals which may encourage
training and retraining of their staff for that purpose.
The data
obtained from the level of utilization of HIV testing service may be an
eye opener to service providers to be propelled to intensify strategies
for pregnant mothers to willingly accept HIV testing. This may also help
to motivate the various hospital administrators to make available all
the equipment and materials necessary for HIV testing service in their
hospitals. More so, their laboratory scientist may be retrained for HIV
testing.
The findings generated may also help health care providers
to support for community mobilization efforts to increase acceptance of
ART for PMTCT. It will also help to bring about effort to support global
efforts to negotiate reduced costs of the drugs and foster partnerships
among organizations to purchase drugs collectively at low cost.
The
information may also help health care providers to provide community
education about the importance of antenatal care and deliveries assisted
by MTCT- trained attendants.
The information on the level of
utilization of safer infant feeding options will help service providers
to counsel HIV positive pregnant mothers to make an informed decision
concerning safer feeding option for their babies. Informed and safer
choice may promote and increase quality of life of infants born to HIV
positive mothers.
The information will help PMTCT service providers
to continually improve their services and the way they work and to
improve the coordination of PMTCT programme which will lead to changes
in the process of preventive service delivery in practice. They will use
the information in decision making and in carrying out their
responsibilities in multiple practice organization for HIV patients.
It
will also provide an opportunity for improvement of the services
provided and increase the knowledge of the community on the availability
of PMTCT services. Its package and intervention strategies will help to
dispel some erroneous beliefs and practices on the use of
antiretroviral drugs (ARVS) that encourage or promote HIV/AIDS
transmission.
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