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The Four 4 Women campaign aims to ensure that women and their right to health is the primary focus of programmes to prevent vertical transmission of HIV/AIDS (from mother to child) as these programmes are implemented and scaled up at national and global levels.

Click on the links below to see the campaign response globally and nationally.

 

    

     

Women seem to bear the burden of prevention of vertical transmission and the consequences of a possible positive HIV test by themselves. Othoman Mellouk, Activist, Morocco

In our country it's not in the practice of health care centres that women with HIV can plan their pregnancies. Family planning is not a routine offering. UNFPA rep, Argentina

PMTCT is poor in Cambodia: poor in terms of quality, cooperation, coverage of services and high maternal mortality. UN agency representative, Cambodia

HIV-positive mothers sometimes feel in harassed by health workers who "treat them as though it were a crime to conceive after they knew they were HIV-positive". Focus group discussant, Uganda

Women often suffer doubly, not only from the disease, but from abuse from their spouses and isolation by their communities. Carol Mubaira, Activist, Zimbabwe

My husband and I decided that this baby should be born. But every time I go to my gynaecologist I feel like I mount the scaffold. She talks to me like I am a criminal. Snezhana, Moldova

Even when a man goes to the hospital, nothing is said to him, they speak only to the woman. The men come only during delivery... so they don't feel involved. Woman living with HIV, Cameroon

The circuit is too long...services are not located in the same building. Women [are] lost between two service delivery points...we end up with many lost to follow-up. Doctor,Côte d'Ivoire 

[The health care workers] shouted at me for being pregnant. They didn't counsel me, and when I went to get my medicine they insulted me. Woman living with HIV, Ethiopia

We have not done very well in reaching out to other members of the family, especially the male partner, because most of them are not even coming up for testing. Doctor, Nigeria

Follow up of positive mothers is a challenge. Adequate attention is not given as the baby is the main focus...we don't have data on how many [women] are on ART. Delhi State AIDS Control Society...