Interviewers explained the purpose of the study to each of the
20 mothers. Upon agreeing to participate in the study they were
visited by the interviewers and requested to give contact details
of their grandmothers and fathers of their babies. Interviewers
telephonically contacted all the 20 grandmothers and 20 fathers
related to the above HIV-negative and HIV-positive mothers.
Out of the above 20 grandmothers and 20 fathers, 14 of each
(i.e. seven for HIV-exposed, seven for non-HIV-exposed grandchildren
and babies, respectively) who agreed first to participate
were selected for the study. The 14 teenage mothers who were
exclusively or predominantly formula feeding infants under
6 months of age, half of whom were HIV-positive, were
purposively selected from a pool of Good Start III participants
to take part in the FGDs.