Trends in the uptake of antenal voluntary counselling and testing for HIV and HIV prevelance among childbearing women in Barbados, 1993-2004: Evidence to gauge the effectiveness of HIV prevention measures

West Indian Medical Journal

Volumn 56, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 60-65

  Kumar, A ^a   St White, H ^b   Carter, A O ^b  

^a Department of Pediatrics   (Barbados)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES   (Jamaica)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIRETROVIRUS AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BARBADOS; DISEASE SURVEILLANCE; FEMALE; HEALTH PROGRAM; HIV EDUCATION; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS PREVALENCE; INFECTION PREVENTION; INFECTION RATE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MATERNAL AGE; MATERNAL DISEASE; NONHUMAN; PATIENT COUNSELING; PLACENTAL TRANSFER; POPULATION RESEARCH; PREGNANT WOMAN; PRENATAL CARE; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; TREND STUDY; VIRUS DETECTION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; VOLUNTARY PROGRAM; COUNSELING; HEALTH SURVEY; MASS SCREENING; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; STATISTICS;

ADULT; BARBADOS; COUNSELING; FEMALE; HIV INFECTIONS; HIV SEROPREVALENCE; HUMANS; MASS SCREENING; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS;

EID: 34347270925     PISSN: 00433144     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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