Editorial: Giving antiretrovirals in the peripartum period to prevent mother-to-child HIV transmission in low-income countries: Only a short-term stopgap measure

Tropical Medicine and International Health

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 375-377

  Colebunders, R ^a   Kolsteren, P ^a   Ryder, R ^b,c  

^a INSTITUTE OF TROPICAL MEDICINE   (Belgium)

^b NC Ctr for Pub Health Preparedness   (United States)

^c IL   (United States)

Author keywords

AIDS; ART; HAART; HIV; Low income countries; Mother to child transmission

Indexed keywords

ANTIRETROVIRUS AGENT; LAMIVUDINE; NEVIRAPINE; ZIDOVUDINE;

HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS;

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADULT; BREAST FEEDING; CLINICAL TRIAL; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DRUG COST; EDITORIAL; HIGHLY ACTIVE ANTIRETROVIRAL THERAPY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFANT; INFECTION RATE; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; META ANALYSIS; PREGNANCY; PUERPERIUM; VIRUS INFECTION; VIRUS LOAD; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

ANTI-HIV AGENTS; ANTIRETROVIRAL THERAPY, HIGHLY ACTIVE; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, VERTICAL; FEMALE; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; PERINATAL CARE; PREGNANCY;

HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1;

EID: 0038003953     PISSN: 13602276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-3156.2003.01041.x     Document Type: Editorial

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