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    South Africa: New improved PMTCT brings challenges

    Prince Mshiyeni Memorial Hospital, just outside the port city of Durban, in KwaZulu-Natal Province, has one of South Africa's busiest maternity wards. About 1,200 women a month give birth here, of which about 40 percent are HIV-positive, according to figures from the antenatal clinic.
    14 Jul 2008
    14 Jul 2008

    For staff working in the hospital's antenatal clinic and maternity ward, implementing the government's new guidelines for the prevention of mother-to-child HIV transmission (PMTCT) has not been easy. "We're still struggling," Thembi Dlamini, the Sister-in-Charge of the hospital's PMTCT programme, told IRIN/PlusNews.

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