TY - JOUR AU - Simangunsong, Dame Evalina AU - Sianipar, Kandace AU - Purba, Juliani PY - 2021/11/15 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - The Training of Health Cadre as an Effort to Prevent the Transmission of HIV/AIDS to Pregnant Women JF - MITRA: Jurnal Pemberdayaan Masyarakat JA - mitra VL - 5 IS - 2 SE - Articles DO - 10.25170/mitra.v5i2.2264 UR - https://ejournal.atmajaya.ac.id/index.php/mitra/article/view/2264 SP - 112-120 AB - <p><span class="fontstyle0">The degree of public health in a country can be reflected in the number of health cases resulting in&nbsp;maternal and infant mortality. The mortality rates can further increase with the cases of HIV&nbsp;transmission from mother to child. Therefore, to mitigate this issue, there should be a program that&nbsp;can provide basic health services. One such program was once conducted in the Center for Public&nbsp;Health through VCT services. However, this program did not manage to lower the case counts as&nbsp;expected. The presence of midwives in the health facilities is observed to be inadequate in attracting&nbsp;pregnant women to undergo ANC services. Furthermore, there are still cases of delay in the pregnant&nbsp;women’s first visit to the health service, rendering it too late to identify pregnant women with HIV</span><span class="fontstyle0">.&nbsp;The </span><span class="fontstyle0">Mitra Village Development Program (PPDM) in Dolok Hataran Village, Siantar District,&nbsp;Simalungun Regency, was then conducted and enhanced the health cadres’ knowledge about the&nbsp;measures taken to prevent HIV/AIDS transmission from pregnant women to their babies, also able&nbsp;to provide counseling practices. </span><span class="fontstyle0">The method of activity is training of 24 health cadres of Batu Anam&nbsp;Health Center, Simalungun Regency, and counseling practices with pregnant women. This activity&nbsp;succeeded in increasing the knowledge of cadres and cadres able to conduct counseling practices.</span></p> ER -