Employment of off-duty staff: A strategy to meet the human resource needs for a large PMTCT program in Zambia [3]

Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes

Volumn 40, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 381-382

  Chi, Benjamin H ^a   Sinkala, Moses ^a,b   Stringer, Elizabeth M ^a   McFarlane, Yvette ^a   Ng'uni, Catherine ^a   Myzece, Elizabeth ^a   Goldenberg, Robert L ^a   Stringer, Jeffrey S A ^a  

^a CENTRE FOR INFECTIOUS DISEASE RESEARCH IN ZAMBIA   (Zambia)

^b MINISTRY OF HEALTH   (Zambia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EMPLOYMENT; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HIGHLY ACTIVE ANTIRETROVIRAL THERAPY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFECTION PREVENTION; LETTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRAINING; VERTICAL TRANSMISSION; ZAMBIA;

DISEASE TRANSMISSION, VERTICAL; FEMALE; HEALTH MANPOWER; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MEDICAL STAFF; ORGANIZATIONAL INNOVATION; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; PROGRAM EVALUATION; ZAMBIA;

EID: 27444439912     PISSN: 15254135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.qai.0000159515.39982.c0     Document Type: Letter

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