The mother'scarnet de santé(health booklet) in Cameroon

A tool for preventing mother-to-child transmission of HIV

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ID2171463
AuthorsJosiane Carine Tantchou (0000-0002-5997-0154, Centre Jacques Berque pour le Développement des Sciences Humaines et Sociales, corresponding author), Josiane Tantchou (Chargée de recherche – CNRS, Centre Jacques Berque, Rabat, Morocco), Annick Tijou-Traoré (Les Afriques dans le Monde (LAM-UMR5115), Domaine Universitaire, Pessac, France), Annick Tijou Traoré (0000-0001-8142-8110, Les Afriques dans le Monde)
Year2019
Volume26
Issue1
Pages104-118
Publication date2019-01-02
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueAnthropology and Medicine (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1364-8470 • E-ISSN: 1469-2910
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/13648470.2017.1334039
PMID29482337
OpenAlexW2789557085
LanguageEN
References cited23

In the global effort against HIV and AIDS, prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV (PMTCT) in resource-poor countries is an issue of international importance. In Cameroon, a widely disseminated protocol defines the process to be followed by all pregnant women within the public health system before and after screening, whatever the result. The protocol as a representation of professional practices can be discerned in inscriptions made in files, registers and the carnet de santé that we use here as the cornerstone of our analysis. By granting it the status of a 'script' and intermediary object, we hypothesize that its purpose is to link together human and non-human actors around the PMTCT protocol in order to reduce the risk of mother-to-child transmission. However, as we show, representations and forms of interactions that are structured and reconfigured around it paradoxically contribute to the re-emergence of the risk of mother-to-child transmission of HIV

Family medicine · Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV · Telecommunications · Transmission (telecommunications · Computer Science · HIV, Drug Use, Sexual Risk · HIV/AIDS Impact and Responses · HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions · Medicine · Psychology

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