In addition, the findings of the antenatal care (ANC) BCC project evaluation will be shared with a broader group of interested communication and development partners, including NGOs.
The young mother was taking part in a pioneering UNICEF-backed project tying antenatal care into a push to prevent mother-to-child transmission of HIV.
For example, the Care Group projects had more than twice the increase in population coverage compared with non-Care Group projects for antenatal care visits, tetanus toxoid vaccination, multiple micronutrient supplementation, complementary feeding, hand washing with soap, use of ORS to treat diarrhea, use of oral antibiotics to treat pneumonia, and malaria treatment.
These institutions have jointly implemented a variety of highly successful research and health development projects in the Lake Zone region over the last 15 years including a large community-based STI intervention trial, an antenatal syphilis screening and treatment project, the Mine Health Project and other initiatives [ 33].
Incremental cost-effectiveness ratios (ICERs), in US dollars per year of life saved (YLS), were calculated from combined projected lifetime healthcare costs (antenatal + maternal + infant) and combined projected life expectancy (maternal + infant) [ 16], discounted at 3% per year.
Pregnant women and their spouses who either visited the obstetric outpatient clinic of the Gynaecological and Obstetric Hospital of the Warsaw School of Medicine or physicians at a collaborating hospital in the same city were informed about the project when attending antenatal classes at the hospitals.
For PMTCT, the number of eligible pregnant women was estimated by multiplying district antenatal HIV prevalence with a projected pregnant population (which is 5.2% of the district population based on projected census figures).
Given that the project also focused on antenatal care, this could have been a possibility.
Sentinel surveillance in antenatal women has been used to project national HIV seroprevalence in Kenya since 1990 [ 1].
Mothers enrolled in the project regularly visiting the antenatal clinic during a three-months period (Sept Nov 200202) were invited to participate in the study.
