Socio-demographic characteristics of HIV-exposed and HIV-infected Jamaican children

West Indian Medical Journal

Volumn 53, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 303-307

  Rodriguez, B ^a   Steel Duncan, J C ^a   Pierre, R ^a   Evans Gilbert, T ^a   Hambleton, I ^a   Palmer, P ^a   Figueroa, J P ^a   Christie, Celia C D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES   (Jamaica)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILDBIRTH; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; EPIDEMIC; FAMILY SIZE; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFANT; INSTITUTIONAL CARE; JAMAICA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MATERNITY WARD; OCCUPATION; PATIENT SELECTION; PEDIATRICS; PERINATAL INFECTION; PREGNANCY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SKILL; SOCIAL STATUS;

CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COST OF ILLNESS; DISEASE PROGRESSION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, VERTICAL; FEMALE; HIV INFECTIONS; HIV SEROPOSITIVITY; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; JAMAICA; PREGNANCY; PREVALENCE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 10644260404     PISSN: 00433144     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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