Nursing interventions in the Kingston Paediatric and Perinatal HIV/AIDS Programme in Jamaica

West Indian Medical Journal

Volumn 53, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 327-331

  Palmer, P M ^a   Anderson Allen, M M ^a   Billings, C C ^a   Moore, J T ^a   McDonald Kerr, C ^a   Steel Duncan, J C ^a   Christie, Celia D C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES   (Jamaica)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NEVIRAPINE; ZIDOVUDINE;

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD HEALTH CARE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CONTROLLED STUDY; COUNSELING; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE NEED; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; JAMAICA; MATERNITY WARD; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL RESEARCH; MIDWIFE; NURSE; NURSING; PEDIATRIC HOSPITAL; PEDIATRICS; PERINATAL INFECTION; PREGNANCY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; VERTICAL TRANSMISSION;

ACQUIRED IMMUNODEFICIENCY SYNDROME; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, VERTICAL; FEMALE; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; JAMAICA; MIDWIFERY; NURSING PROCESS; PEDIATRIC NURSING; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; PROGRAM EVALUATION;

EID: 10644257914     PISSN: 00433144     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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