Background: Children living with HIV worldwide majority are infected through mother to child transmission of HIV (MTCT) acquired during pregnancy. Knowledge, attitude and behavioral changes are pivot tools towards success of any interventions. Objectives: To determine the effectiveness of counseling on HIV done in primary health facilities (PHF), level of knowledge gained and attitude changes towards PMTCT. Methods: A cross sectional study assessing pregnant women's knowledge and their attitude towards PMTCT was conducted in Temeke district from October 2010 to Jan 2011 using a structured questionnaire. Results: A total of 383 antenatal attendees were referred to Temeke district for management after counselled and tested for HIV in PHFs. Majority (86.9%) had primary education and good knowledge on MTCT. Correct timing of ARVs prophylaxis (15.7%) as preventive measures for MTCT was poor. Education and employment were associated with good knowledge on MTCT of HIV. Women had positive attitudes towards HIV counseling and testing, but stigma was a barrier to disclosure of one's serostatus. Conclusion: There is knowledge gap in routine PMTCT counseling among antenatal attendees in our PHFs. Effective counseling on PMTCT in the PHFs will bridge the identified knowledge gap and help in reduction of pediatric HIV. African Health Sciences 2013; 13(4): 914 -919 http://dx

Background: Children living with HIV worldwide majority are infected through mother to child transmission of HIV (MTCT) acquired during pregnancy. Knowledge, attitude and behavioral changes are pivot tools towards success of any interventions. Objectives: To determine the effectiveness of counseling on HIV done in primary health facilities (PHF), level of knowledge gained and attitude changes towards PMTCT. Methods: A cross sectional study assessing pregnant women's knowledge and their attitude towards PMTCT was conducted in Temeke district from October 2010 to Jan 2011 using a structured questionnaire. Results: A total of 383 antenatal attendees were referred to Temeke district for management after counselled and tested for HIV in PHFs. Majority (86.9%) had primary education and good knowledge on MTCT. Correct timing of ARVs prophylaxis (15.7%) as preventive measures for MTCT was poor. Education and employment were associated with good knowledge on MTCT of HIV. Women had positive attitudes towards HIV counseling and testing, but stigma was a barrier to disclosure of one's serostatus. Conclusion: There is knowledge gap in routine PMTCT counseling among antenatal attendees in our PHFs. Effective counseling on PMTCT in the PHFs will bridge the identified knowledge gap and help in reduction of pediatric HIV.

Kettering University is a coop college for Engineering and Managerial Studies located in Flint, Michigan. Our students alternate terms of classroom/laboratory work with terms of work experience with their corporate sponsors. Because of this unique education system, it is important that our students are able to apply their classroom/laboratory experience to solve the problems they encounter during their work terms. Since the Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering Department has a polymer processing laboratory, which provides the students with hands-on manufacturing experience in injection molding, extrusion, and material characterization, it is a reasonable place to create near "real world" projects for class integration in problem solving. The Advance Quality Assurance (AQA) course offered by the IE program is a process quality improvement course which covers Design of Experiments (DOE), Response Surface Methodology (RSM), and Quality Control Charts. The Polymer Processing course taught by the ME faculty studies how polymeric materials are affected by processing parameters. One of the major topics in the course is the study of injection molding, its optimization, and trouble shooting. This pilot project to integrate the two courses is a consequence of the demand from industry. As a result of the integration, IE students will acquire knowledge of the injection molding process and ME students will learn DOE techniques. The step-by-step DOE technique was applied to an injection molded tensile bar, which demonstrated what to be studied in the experiment, how to conduct the experiment, how to collect and analyze data, and how to draw practical conclusions on the basis of the data. This paper will show the roadmap and discuss the process and the outcome of the integration of AQA, an industrial engineering course and Polymer Processing, a manufacturing course.