In a successful collaborative programme, Jamaican nurses and midwives were trained in PMTCT, voluntary counselling and testing, and recognition and management of paediatric AIDS, following guidelines for HIV care with consequent impact on sensitising and encouraging other health care workers in the care of persons living with HIV/AIDS, on enhancing multidisciplinary collaboration, on sensitising people in the community about the disease and on improving the comfort level of women and families with accessing health care.