Factors influencing teen mothers' enrollment and participation in prevention of mother-to-child HIV transmission services in limpopo province, South Africa

Qualitative Health Research

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 786-802

  Varga, Christine ^a   Brookes, Heather ^b  

^a Nozizwe Consulting in Durban   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF JOHANNESBURG   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Adolescents; Counseling services; HIV AIDS; HIV AIDS prevention; Mothers; Pregnancy; South Africa; Testing uptake

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT MOTHER; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO AIDS; ATTITUDE TO PREGNANCY; CONFIDENTIALITY; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS PREVALENCE; INFECTION PREVENTION; MOTHER CHILD RELATION; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PATIENT COUNSELING; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; QUESTIONNAIRE; SCREENING TEST; SOUTH AFRICA; STIGMA; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AIDS SERODIAGNOSIS; DIRECTIVE COUNSELING; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, VERTICAL; FEMALE; FOCUS GROUPS; HEALTH SURVEYS; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; PREGNANCY IN ADOLESCENCE; PREVENTIVE HEALTH SERVICES; RURAL POPULATION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SOUTH AFRICA;

EID: 44149114268     PISSN: 10497323     EISSN: 15527557     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1049732308318449     Document Type: Article

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