Selected programmes, data, materials, people, and media sources from communication, development and change organisations. Click here for a summary of the study. Information, Education and Communication in partnership with advocacy were used to create awareness, increase knowledge, develop partnerships, reduce stigma and discrimination and ensure public support for MTCT interventions. This will be the first hospital to introduce such training into the workplace in Brazil. Studies are intended to provide data on which to base design and improvements to services and development of communications programs to improve information, education, counseling, and support needs of women and communities related to MTCT prevention programmes.
Pilot projects are now at various stages of implementation in eight countries in Africa.
These are intended to test the feasibility and sustainability of implementing in a routine setting the findings of the research that has already been done, to measure the impact of the intervention, and to enable the refinement of strategies. The strategy will assist countries and sites that implement MTCT to pay attention to issues of community outreach, community participation and mobilisation, advocacy, audience research, development of materials and messages, information and education. Initial findings show that exclusive breastfeeding may provide an affordable, culturally acceptable and effective means of reducing MTCT of HIV-1 while maintaining the overwhelming benefits of breastfeeding. The Ministers committed themselves to immediately step up efforts to implement programmes in Member States aimed at promoting and supporting voluntary counselling and testing as well as strengthening the capacity of health systems to effectively deliver these services. The aim of the conference was to sensitize medical and paramedical communities to HIV and AIDS in terms of international intervention of HIV transmission from mother to child.