Topic | Area |
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Health Promotion | Eat nutritious diet |
Sleep in a mosquito net | |
Go to antenatal clinic as scheduled | |
Go to antenatal clinic to be assessed | |
Reduce workload | |
Prevention of mother to child transmission of HIV (PMTCT) | Being faithful to each other |
Use of condoms | |
Avoid extra marital affairs | |
Use of antiretroviral therapy (ART) for the mother | |
Giving medicine to the baby after delivery- antiretroviral syrup | |
Getting tested | |
Feeding Options | Exclusive breastfeeding up to six months |
Frequent breastfeeding of the baby | |
Breastfeed up to six months then stop if HIV positive, or do not breastfeed at all. | |
Breast milk is important, has everything | |
Danger Signs | Severe headache, severe abdominal pains, malaria, HIV, vaginal bleeding, draining liquor, side effects of ART, nose bleeding |
What to do when Danger signs occur | Go to the hospital quickly |
Go to the hospital quickly to prevent complications | |
Go to the hospital | |
Birth Preparedness | Signs of labor |
Have cloths for the baby and mother | |
Buy necessary things: basin, cloths, razor blade, thread, plastic paper, perineal pads. | |
Go to the hospital quickly when labor starts | |
Go to the hospital to be assisted | |
Go to the hospital, do not deliver at home; with traditional birth attendants |