Birth Attendants Trained in "Prevention of Mother-to-Child HIV Transmission" Provide Care in Rural Cameroon, Africa

Journal of Midwifery and Women's Health

Volumn 52, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 334-341

  Wanyu, Benjamin ^a   Diom, Emmanuel ^a   Mitchell, Patricia ^a   Tih, Pius M ^a   Meyer, Dorothy J ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Cameroon; community health aids; health services (indigenous); HIV seroprevalance; maternal health services; nevirapine; perinatal care; rural health services

Indexed keywords

NEVIRAPINE;

AFRICA; ANALYTICAL EQUIPMENT; ARTICLE; CHILD; DELIVERY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HEALTH CENTER; HEALTH PROGRAM; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; IMMUNOASSAY; INFECTION PREVENTION; LABOR; MIDWIFE; PATIENT COUNSELING; PRENATAL CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RURAL AREA; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; VERTICAL TRANSMISSION;

ANTI-HIV AGENTS; CAMEROON; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, VERTICAL; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INSERVICE TRAINING; MIDWIFERY; NEVIRAPINE; NURSE'S ROLE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; RURAL HEALTH SERVICES;

EID: 34250848250     PISSN: 15269523     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmwh.2006.12.018     Document Type: Article

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