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Acceptability of HIV testing in ANC is high, but the key policy issue from the perspective of pregnant women is whether the PMTCT services can provide good quality counselling and the necessary follow-up care.
Promotion of community-level EBF requires effective personnel and management to ensure quality counselling and support for women.
We suggest that more efforts are placed on ensuring high quality counselling, particularly preparing clients for same-day results, and examining barriers to testing and accepting results, rather than abandoning this technique altogether.
"The quality counselling we gave isn't feasible to expect from others.
Their professional training may also be poor, leading to low quality counselling of beneficiaries.
Thus, preventing new infections through the provision of high quality counselling should be another, equally important, aim.
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Thus, the importance of adopting and maintaining reductions in risk behaviour must be emphasized through high-quality counselling.
High-quality counselling addresses a number of different issues, including preparing individuals for testing, and is important in helping learners make responsible health and life decisions.
While they can support the provision of good-quality counselling and testing services to relieve overburdened health care workers, they will require ongoing supervision to further enhance their performance.
Research evidence has also shown that poor-quality counselling in PMTCT programmes and the effects of mass media have created widespread confusion for HIV-infected mothers regarding feeding their infant despite the presence of national guidelines.
Factors directly related to the type of health insurance, such as provider payment mechanisms or the administrative burden of providing health-care, may not only affect a provider's motivation to offer an HIV test but also affect a provider's motivation to provide high-quality counselling preceding a test offer.
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