Abstract
M.Cur.
The purpose of this study is to identify the midwives experience
in doing the delivery or a HIV-positive patient. Because the
incidence of AIDS is increasing in the heterosexual population
and thus the women in their reproductive years, it is important
for the midwife to know how feelings for the HIV-positive patient.
It is the midwife who has to give counselling and support
to tho HlV-positive patients and in doing so, she herself must
get counselling end support.
Unstructured in-depth interviewB wore held with r Ivo midwives on
one occasion. Each midwife should have done at least one delivery
of a HIV-positive patient. The experiences of the midwives
was then combined and a literature control was done to consult
other authors' findings on the heath workers experience of HIV positive
patients.
Recommendations were made at the end of the study concerning
applications to practice, education, further research and the
counselling of the midwife.