Challenges and opportunities for outreach workers in the Prevention of Mother to Child Transmission of HIV (PMTCT) program in India.

BACKGROUND:The Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV (PMTCT) program in India is one of the largest in the world. It uses outreach workers (ORWs) to facilitate patient uptake of services, however, the challenges faced by the ORWs, and their views about the effectiveness of this program a...

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Main Authors: Nishi Suryavanshi, Vidya Mave, Abhay Kadam, Savita Kanade, Srilatha Sivalenka, V Sampath Kumar, Pauline Harvey, Radhayshyam Gupta, Asha Hegde, Nikhil Gupte, Amita Gupta, Robert C Bollinger, Anita Shankar
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2018-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC6122806?pdf=render