The mother-to-child hiv transmission debate

South African Medical Journal

Volumn 89, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 103-104

  Hussey, G ^a,b   Fransman, D ^a   McGillivray, G ^a   Reynolds, L ^a   Jacobs, M ^a   Power, D ^a   Burgess, J ^a   Eley, B ^a   Woods, D ^a   Coetzee, N ^a   Coetzee, E ^a   Anthony, J ^a   Maartens, G ^a   Schaaf, S ^a   Cotton, M ^a   Theron, G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^b STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COTRIMOXAZOLE; ZIDOVUDINE;

ARTIFICIAL MILK; BREAST FEEDING; CHILD; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; COUNSELING; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; LETTER; MOTHER; NONHUMAN; SCREENING; SOUTH AFRICA; VERTICAL TRANSMISSION;

ANTI-HIV AGENTS; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, VERTICAL; FEMALE; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; SOUTH AFRICA; ZIDOVUDINE;

EID: 0033031863     PISSN: 02569574     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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