Results
Characteristics of participants
The majority (95%) of mothers who participated in the in-depth
interviews were 20 years old or above. However, 24% of the
women who participated in the Good Start III trial were
teenagers. To address this gap we recruited 14 teenage mothers
to participate in two FGDs. One group comprised seven
HIV-positive mothers and the other group comprised six HIVnegative
mothers (one teenage mother declined to participate).
The ages of the mothers who participated in the in-depth
interviews ranged from 17 to 34 years, while fathers were aged
between 24 and 46 years, and the grandmothers between 50
and 75 years.