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HIV/AIDS News South Africa

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.

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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