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Table 2 Number of  FGDs per category of participants conducted and total number of participants in each category of FGDs

From: Health facility users’ knowledge, perceptions, and practices about infant feeding in the context of option B+ in South Africa: a qualitative study

Districts

Group 1: 8–10 Women living with HIV and are 25 years old and above with babies aged 0–6 months old who use health services in the district and have lived in this district for more than 6 months = OLDER Postnatal  WHIV

Group 2: 8–10 Women living with HIV who are 24 years old or less with babies aged 0–6 months old who use health services in district and have lived in this district for more than 6 months Postnatal AGYWHIV

Group 3: 8–10 pregnant women (HIV positive and negative) who use health services in district and have lived in this district for more than 6 months, PREGNANT WOMEN regardless of age and HIV status

Group 4: 8–10 men with children younger than 6 months who use health services in district and have lived in this district for more than 6 months MEN/male partners. Regardless of age and HIV status

Group 5: 8–10 HIV negative mothers (with documented HIV negative test result) who are 25 years old and above with babies aged 0–6 months old who use health services in district and have lived in this district for more than 6 month Postnatal OLDER WNHIV

Group 6: 8–10 HIV negative mothers (with documented HIV negative test) who are 18–24 years old with babies aged 0–6 months old who use health services in district and have lived in this district for more than 6 months Postnatal AGYWNHIV

Bojanala (North- West)

  

1

 

1

 

Ehlanzeni (Mpumalanga)

1**

 

1

1**

1

 

Ekhuruleni (Gauteng)

1

 

1

 

1

 

Ethekwini (KwaZulu-Natal)

1 (Incl 2 AGYWHV)**

 

1

1**

1

1

Greater Sekhukhune (Limpopo)

1

 

1

   

ORTambo (Eastern Cape)

1

 

1

 

1

 

TOTAL number of FGDS

5

0

6

2

5

1

Total number of participants in each category interviewed 

28 (incl 2 AGYWHIV)

0

37

9

34

5

  1. Adolescent girls and young women- 24 years and below; Adult/older: 25 years and older. All groups (except for the group of pregnant women) should have had babies aged 0–6 months and should have been living in the district for > 6 months
  2. **FGDs consisted of between less than 6 respondents the two for men, one for older postnatal WHIV and one combined postnatal group of AGYWNHIV and AGYWHIV