The results showed impairment in quality of life, except in medication worries and sexual function in people living with HIV/AIDS. Improvement in HAT-QoL indices will enhance positive quality of life.
The aim was to assess the knowledge and practice of exclusive breastfeeding among women receiving antenatal care in the teaching hospital. Semi-structured questionnaires were administered to two hundred women in the antenatal clinic. Majority of the respondents (69.5%) were between 25-34 years of age, 57.0% were multiparous and 67.7% had attained tertiary level education. Eighty-four women (42.0%) were able to define exclusive breastfeeding correctly while just 7.0% of the respondents knew the ten steps to successful breastfeeding. Only 44.5% of the women practiced exclusive breastfeeding. None of the women belonged to a breastfeeding support group and the most common source of information on exclusive breastfeeding was the antenatal health talks (81.0%). The level of knowledge and practice of exclusive breastfeeding by women in our centre is poor. There is need for large scale health enlightenment of members of the public on exclusive breastfeeding. There is also the need for periodic retraining of relevant health workers on the practice of exclusive breastfeeding and strategies introduced for its regular monitoring and evaluation.
Background:The huge back-log of obstetric fistula and the increasing incidence of the condition in Nigeria is a cause for concern for all stake-holders. This worrisome trend requires concerted effort with innovative strategies to redress the situation.Methods:Hospital-based outreach programs sponsored by a non-governmental organization with volunteer medical and health personnel were used to repair selected cases of obstetric fistula in Nigeria.Results:Fifty-two relatively simple obstetric fistulas were selected out of 68 (selection rate 76.5%) that presented for repair at 12 outreach programs in 5 different states of Nigeria. All the cases were repaired by one trained gynecological surgeon with a cure rate of 100%. The majority (50.0%) of the women were aged between 16 and 20 years with a mean age of 23.8 years ± 3.6. Most (80.9%) of the women in the study population were primiparous. The majority (50.0%) of the women were divorced at the time of their presentation for repair. A vast majority (76.9%) of the women had either primary level of education or no formal education. There was a preponderance (53.8%) of juxtacervical VVF among women in the study population.Conclusion:The use of hospital- based outreach approach to repair simple cases of obstetric fistula if multiplied could help reduce the large number of women living with unrepaired VVF in Nigeria.
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