Mother-to-child transmission of HIV among women who chose not to exclusively breastfeed their infants in Pune, India

Indian Journal of Medical Research

Volumn 126, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 131-134

  Gupta, Amita ^a   Gupte, Nikhil ^b   Sastry, Jayagowri ^b   Bharucha, Kapila E ^c   Bhosale, Ramesh ^c   Kulkarni, Poorva ^b   Tripathy, Srikanth ^d   Nayak, Uma ^e   Phadke, Mridula ^f   Bollinger, Robert C ^a,e  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b BJMC JHU MIT Study Team

^c Byramjee Jeejeebhoy Medical College   (India)

^d NATIONAL AIDS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (India)

^e JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^f MAHARASHTRA UNIVERSITY OF HEALTH SCIENCES   (India)

Author keywords

HIV; India; Mother to child; Nevirapine; Non breastfeeding; Prospective cohort; Transmission; Zidovudine

Indexed keywords

NEVIRAPINE; VIRUS RNA; ZIDOVUDINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL MILK; BREAST FEEDING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMBINATION CHEMOTHERAPY; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELIVERY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTED PATIENT; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INDIA; INDIAN; INFANT FEEDING; INFECTION PREVENTION; MONOTHERAPY; PHASE 3 CLINICAL TRIAL; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PROBABILITY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; SHORT COURSE THERAPY; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; VIRUS LOAD; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

ADULT; ANTI-HIV AGENTS; BOTTLE FEEDING; BREAST FEEDING; COHORT STUDIES; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, VERTICAL; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; FEMALE; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INDIA; INFANT, NEWBORN; NEVIRAPINE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; ZIDOVUDINE;

EID: 35648943736     PISSN: 09715916     EISSN: 09715916     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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