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Peer or community interventions improve outcomes for mothers with HIV
Carole Leach-Lemens, 2015-08-05 08:30:00
Peer- and community-based interventions can significantly increase retention in care of mothers with HIV and early antenatal clinic visits, according to results from two large multi-country studies presented last month at the Eighth International AIDS Society Conference on HIV Pathogenesis, Treatment and Prevention (IAS 2015) in Vancouver, Canada.
For mother-to-child HIV transmission to be eliminated, supporting mothers living with HIV and their infants to stay in care is crucial. Encouraging women to visit an antenatal clinic early in their pregnancy can ensure that HIV is diagnosed far enough in advance of labour and delivery that antiretroviral therapy can be started, and HIV fully suppressed, before giving birth
Two large studies, one evaluating the mothers2mothers (m2m) mentor mother model, the other a randomised comparison of a community-based intervention with a standard-of-care group, showed that retention in care, infant HIV testing and antenatal clinic presentation can be improved.
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