Health system constraints to optimal coverage of the prevention of mother-to-child HIV transmission programme in South Africa: Lessons from the implementation of the national pilot programme

African Health Sciences

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 213-218

  Doherty, Tanya M ^a   McCoy, David ^a   Donohue, Steven ^b  

^a Health Systems Trust   (South Africa)

^b SEFAKO MAKGATHO HEALTH SCIENCES UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NEVIRAPINE;

ADULT; ARTIFICIAL MILK; BREAST FEEDING; CHILD NUTRITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA COLLECTION METHOD; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFANT; INFANT DISEASE; INFECTION PREVENTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEWBORN INFECTION; NEWBORN SCREENING; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PILOT STUDY; POSTNATAL CARE; PRENATAL CARE; REVIEW; SCREENING TEST; SEMI STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; SOUTH AFRICA; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFECTIOUS DISEASE TRANSMISSION, VERTICAL; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; PILOT PROJECTS; PROGRAM EVALUATION; SOUTH AFRICA;

EID: 33644926077     PISSN: 16806905     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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