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Sisters doing it for themselves

By JournAIDS It is no secret that poorly staffed and under-staffed clinics are hurting prevention of mother to child transmission (PMTCT) of HIV efforts in South Africa. One only has to look as far as last week which saw the release of a damning Human Rights Watch (HRW) report which revealed that HIV-positive mothers-to-be were often subject to appalling treatment in state hospitals.
Continue reading | 22 August 2011 | 0 Comments | Tags: 'positive' role models, human rights watch report, lay healthcare counsellors, mentor mothers, mothers2mothers, pmtct