High uptake of exclusive breastfeeding and reduced early post-natal HIV transmission

PLoS ONE

Volumn 2, Issue 12, 2007, Pages

  Kuhn, Louise ^a   Sinkala, Moses ^b   Kankasa, Chipepo ^c   Semrau, Katherine ^d   Kasonde, Prisca ^c   Scott, Nancy ^d   Mwiya, Mwiya ^c   Vwalika, Cheswa ^b   Walter, Jan ^a   Tsai, Wei Yann ^e   Aldrovandi, Grace M ^f   Thea, Donald M ^d  

^a Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer's Disease and the Aging Brain and the Gertrude H Sergievsky Center   (United States)

^b Lusaka District Health Management Team   (Zambia)

^c UNIVERSITY TEACHING HOSPITAL   (Zambia)

^d BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^e University of Southern California ^*  (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CD4 ANTIGEN; NEVIRAPINE; RNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE INHIBITOR;

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL FEEDING; BLOOD SAMPLING; BREAST FEEDING; CD4+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CHILD CARE; CHILD NUTRITION; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SEVERITY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HEALTH PROGRAM; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTED PATIENT; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; HYPOTHESIS; INFANT; INFECTION PREVENTION; INFECTION RISK; LACTATION; LOW BIRTH WEIGHT; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PATIENT SAFETY; PERINATAL PERIOD; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SAFETY; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; SYPHILIS SEROLOGY; VIRUS LOAD; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; WEANING; ZAMBIA; BABY FOOD; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; NEWBORN; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; QUESTIONNAIRE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL;

BREAST FEEDING; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, VERTICAL; FEMALE; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT FOOD; INFANT, NEWBORN; NEVIRAPINE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; QUESTIONNAIRES; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE INHIBITORS; WEANING;

EID: 44449084384     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0001363     Document Type: Article

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