Preventing mother-to-child HIV transmission in the new millennium: The challenge of breast feeding

Paediatric and Perinatal Epidemiology

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 10-16

  Kuhn, Louise ^a,b   Stein, Zena ^a   Susser, Mervyn ^a  

^a Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^b Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer's Disease and the Aging Brain and the Gertrude H Sergievsky Center   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIRETROVIRUS AGENT; NEVIRAPINE;

ARTIFICIAL MILK; BREAST FEEDING; DEATH; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFANT FEEDING; INFANT MORTALITY; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MORBIDITY; PATIENT COUNSELING; REVIEW; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

BREAST FEEDING; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, VERTICAL; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT FOOD; RISK ASSESSMENT;

EID: 1042288356     PISSN: 02695022     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3016.2003.00528.x     Document Type: Review

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