Integrating prevention of mother-to-child HIV transmission into antenatal care: Learning from the experiences of women in South Africa

AIDS Care - Psychological and Socio-Medical Aspects of AIDS/HIV

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 37-46

  Etiebet, M A ^a   Fransman, D ^b   Forsyth, B ^a   Coetzee, N ^c   Hussey, G ^b  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ZIDOVUDINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIENCE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFECTION PREVENTION; INTERVIEW; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRENATAL CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; SCREENING TEST; SERODIAGNOSIS; SOUTH AFRICA; VERTICAL TRANSMISSION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

ADULT; ANTI-HIV AGENTS; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BREAST FEEDING; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, VERTICAL; FEMALE; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; POSTNATAL CARE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; PRENATAL CARE; SOUTH AFRICA; TRUTH DISCLOSURE; URBAN POPULATION; WOMEN'S HEALTH SERVICES; ZIDOVUDINE;

EID: 1642498318     PISSN: 09540121     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09540120310001633958     Document Type: Article

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