TITLE: HIV / AIDS awareness and risk behaviour among pregnant women in Semey,
Kazakhstan, 2007
AUTHOR: E. Sandgren, S. Sandgren, M. Urazalin, and R. Andersson
DATE: 2008
PUBLISHER: BMC Public Health, 8(295)
Central Asia has one of the most rapidly increasing HIV prevalence in the world.
This research article describes the results of a study to assess current
knowledge, risk behaviour and attitudes to voluntary counselling and testing
concerning HIV/AIDS among pregnant women in Semey, Kazakhstan. The study
concluded that pregnant women in Semey have poor knowledge about specific
mother-to-child HIV transmission and do not know about the means of reducing
mother-to-child HIV infection. However, most of the women in Semey were positive
to prevention strategies for mother-to-child transmission after hearing about
it.
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