Young Mi Kim South Africa Bloomberg School of Public Health, MHS Program HIV/AIDS is a major problem in South Africa, where high HIV prevalence among women of childbearing age poses serious risks for mother-to-child transmission (MTCT) of HIV during pregnancy, childbirth, and the post-natal period. Of particular concern in South Africa are poor infant feeding practices during the first 6 months of an infant’s life, which can drastically increase the risk of MTCT. Moreover, poor quality infant feeding counseling is reinforcing risky infant feeding behaviors. This project will conduct group interviews with lay counselors and HIV+ mothers to gather stakeholder input on a tool designed to measure the quality of antenatal infant feeding counseling. The results of these interviews will inform the refinement of the tool, which will be used in future training efforts to define a “gold standard” of high quality antenatal infant feeding counseling in the context of HIV. | 
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