Abstract

SANTOS, Elizabeth Moreira dos; REIS, Ana Cristina; WESTMAN, Suzanne  and  ALVES, Rosane Gomes. Avaliação do grau de implantação do programa de controle da transmissão vertical do HIV em maternidades do "Projeto Nascer": Implementation evaluation of Brazil's National vertical HIV transmission control program in maternity clinics participating in the "Nascer" Project. Epidemiol. Serv. Saúde [online]. 2010, vol.19, n.3, pp.257-269. ISSN 1679-4974.  http://dx.doi.org/10.5123/S1679-49742010000300008.

OBJECTIVE: to evaluate the implementation of the National Control Program of HIV Vertical Transmission in brazilian maternities. METHODOLOGY: data from medical records, interview with pregnant women and pre-birth care observation were compared to a retrospective cohort of positively diagnosed pregnant women from the same maternity clinics. RESULTS: sixty-seven percent out of 30 clinics had rapid HIV test kits and IV and syrup AZT. In 324 cohort pregnant women previously diagnosed for HIV, 18% had not taken AZT and 7% have not had their children medicated. CONCLUSION: unavailability of human resources, rapid HIV test kits, inappropriate conditionsfor testing and lack of HIV counseling and testing for pregnant women were major negative findings.

Keywords : program evaluation; vertical transmission; HIV.

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