Are the rights of women compromised in prenatal HIV counselling and testing programmes?
Leonard LE, Gahagan J, Doherty M, Navarro C, Rehman L, Hankins C; International Conference on AIDS. Int Conf AIDS. 2002 Jul 7-12; 14: abstract no. F11969. Department of Epidemiology and Community Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada ISSUE: In the context of compelling evidence that transmission of HIV from an infected woman to her unborn child can be significantly interrupted through prophylactic treatment and medical interventions where available, mother-to-child transmission (MTCT) of HIV has become a priority for early detection, operationalised through prenatal HIV counselling and testing (VCT) programmes. In the push to reduce the risk of MTCT, has a new risk emerged for women – that their rights to best practices in VCT may be compromised in the context of MTCT prevention programming that tests women as mothers rather than women in their own right? DESCRIPTION: This exploratory research was undertaken with 105 pregnant women from across Can
