Pregnancy outcomes in HIV-infected and uninfected women in rural and urban South Africa

Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 321-328

  Rollins, Nigel C ^a,d   Coovadia, Hoosen M ^a   Bland, Ruth M ^a   Coutsoudis, Anna ^a   Bennish, Michael L ^b   Patel, Deven ^c   Newell, Marie Louise ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Africa; Early infant mortality; Low birth weight; Mother to child transmission; Pregnancy outcome

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICA; ARM; ARTICLE; CD4+ T LYMPHOCYTE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELIVERY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFANT; INFANT MORTALITY; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MATERNAL MORTALITY; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PREGNANT WOMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RURAL POPULATION; URBAN POPULATION; URBAN RURAL DIFFERENCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; CD4 LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; FEMALE; HIV INFECTIONS; HIV-1; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT MORTALITY; INFANT, LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; INFANT, NEWBORN; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; RURAL HEALTH; SOUTH AFRICA; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; URBAN HEALTH;

EID: 33847247875     PISSN: 15254135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/QAI.0b013e31802ea4b0     Document Type: Article

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