Can social innovation advance the PMTCT programme? A South African reflection

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dc.contributor.authorMdleleni, Lwando
dc.contributor.authorVelapi, Linda
dc.date.accessioned2022-09-20T09:55:27Z
dc.date.available2022-09-20T09:55:27Z
dc.date.issued2022
dc.description.abstractThe prevention of mother to child transmission (PMTCT) programme is an initiative developed to enable health care practitioners to provide essential care to mothers in order to prevent the transmission of HIV to their infants.However,the PMTCT programme has not been reaching its intended prevention objectives. This paper identifies the social issues that elucidate the gap between PMTCT program goals and the role that Social Innovation could play in improving the status quo.Supporting Social Innovationin health helps reduce infectious diseases by empowering communities to become active participants in their health challenges through local adaptation of global strategies that facilitate the reduction of health system limitations.The article combines a review of the literature with empirical evidence extracted from research that has analyzed the postpartum experiences of mothers living with HIV in the context of the PMTCT program in Khayelitsha, Cape Town, South Africa in 2021.en_US
dc.identifier.citationMdleleni, L., & Velapi, L. (2022). Can social innovation advance the PMTCT programme? A South African reflection. European Public and Social Innovation Review, 7(1), 43-56. 10.31637/epsir.22-1.4en_US
dc.identifier.issn2529-9824
dc.identifier.uri10.31637/epsir.22-1.4
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10566/7928
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherSinnergiak Social Innovationen_US
dc.subjectSocial innovationen_US
dc.subjectHealth care practitionersen_US
dc.subjectPublic healthen_US
dc.subjectHIVen_US
dc.subjectSouth Africaen_US
dc.titleCan social innovation advance the PMTCT programme? A South African reflectionen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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