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| Title |
HIV and infant feeding in Malawi: public health simplicity in complex social and cultural contexts
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|---|---|
| Published in |
BMC Public Health, August 2012
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| DOI | 10.1186/1471-2458-12-700 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Jacqueline R Chinkonde, Marit Helene Hem, Johanne Sundby |
| Abstract |
The question of when and how to best wean infants born to mothers with HIV requires complex answers. There are clinical guidelines on best approaches but limitations persist when applying them in diverse low-income settings. In such settings, infant-feeding practices are not only dependent on individual women's choices but are also subject to social and cultural pressures. However, when developing infant-feeding policies little attention has been paid to these pressures, even though they may yield useful empirical knowledge on the various forces that shape the infant-feeding dilemmas confronting women with HIV. This study aimed to a) identify the infant-feeding challenges that women with HIV faced when they were advised to wean their children at an early age of six months and b) explore how the women adhered to their infant-feeding options while facing and managing these challenges. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 11 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 4 | 36% |
| United Kingdom | 2 | 18% |
| Paraguay | 1 | 9% |
| Brazil | 1 | 9% |
| Canada | 1 | 9% |
| Unknown | 2 | 18% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 8 | 73% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 2 | 18% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 1 | 9% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 142 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Australia | 1 | <1% |
| Switzerland | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 140 | 99% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Master | 29 | 20% |
| Researcher | 21 | 15% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 15 | 11% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 13 | 9% |
| Student > Bachelor | 11 | 8% |
| Other | 26 | 18% |
| Unknown | 27 | 19% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Medicine and Dentistry | 38 | 27% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 32 | 23% |
| Social Sciences | 19 | 13% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 5 | 4% |
| Psychology | 5 | 4% |
| Other | 12 | 8% |
| Unknown | 31 | 22% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 7. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 20 September 2012.
All research outputs
#5,057,977
of 25,022,483 outputs
Outputs from BMC Public Health
#5,750
of 16,690 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#34,146
of 177,456 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Public Health
#88
of 332 outputs
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So far Altmetric has tracked 16,690 research outputs from this source. They typically receive a lot more attention than average, with a mean Attention Score of 14.4. This one has gotten more attention than average, scoring higher than 65% of its peers.
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