Acessibilidade à fórmula infantil no contexto do HIV

Abstract

Although treatment for the prevention of vertical HIV transmission is guaranteed in the country, there are a number of factors that may hinder the access of the mother-baby dyad to health services, and consequently compromise the effectiveness of the therapy. This study aimed to investigate how is the accessibility of HIV positive postpartum women to the infant formula made available to children born exposed to the risk of transmission. This is a qualitative field survey, performed with women postpartum HIV positive and infants exposed at a University Hospital in the interior of Rio Grande do Sul. The data collection was done through a semi-structured questionnaire and an interview that was recorded and later transcribed in full and submitted to the content analysis proposed by Bardin (2009). After the analysis, three categories emerged: (1) Qualified health care network; (2) Access to infant formula e (3) Guidelines on the use of infant formula. It was identified that despite the positive evaluation emitted by the women, the local attention network does not work in its integrality for the mother-baby binomial, with regard to the monitoring of double in the basic health care. All women reported no difficulties for accessing the infant formula, as well as all were oriented regarding the use of the same after the child's birth, however was not possible to verify if these guidelines were in agreement with the oficial recommendeds.