AIDS Healthcare Foundation (AHF), an NGO, on Thursday, trained women living with Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) in the FCT, Abuja, on prevention of transmission of the virus to infants.
The organisation’s Country Director, Dr Echey Ijezie, said during a one-day workshop for participants across the six area councils of the FCT, that the initiative is under the Mentor Mother programme to Prevent Mother-to-Child Transmissions (PMTCT) of HIV.
He said the training was to train mentor mothers and Traditional Birth Attendants (TBA) in prevention of HIV to infants.
He added that “we want to generate a good network of mentor mothers who benefitted from the prevention, treatment and care services given to HIV positive pregnant women.
“We are doing this across states of the federation by identifying mentor mothers to work in communities. And as they work in communities, they encourage other mothers to access free…
Source: Guardian Newspaper
