Prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV programme: Low vertical transmission in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

South African Medical Journal

Volumn 98, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 458-462

  Geddes, Rosemary ^a   Knight, Stephen ^a   Reid, Sandy ^b   Giddy, Janet ^b   Esterhuizen, Tonya ^a   Roberts, Candice ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

^b MCCORD HOSPITAL   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIRETROVIRUS AGENT; NEVIRAPINE; ZIDOVUDINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CESAREAN SECTION; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FETUS; FETUS DEATH; FOLLOW UP; HIGHLY ACTIVE ANTIRETROVIRAL THERAPY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS PREVALENCE; INCIDENCE; INFECTION PREVENTION; LIVE BIRTH; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MATERNAL MORTALITY; NEWBORN; NEWBORN DEATH; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PATIENT COUNSELING; PERINATAL INFECTION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL CARE; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; SOUTH AFRICA; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VERTICAL TRANSMISSION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTI-HIV AGENTS; ANTI-RETROVIRAL AGENTS; ANTIRETROVIRAL THERAPY, HIGHLY ACTIVE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, VERTICAL; FEMALE; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; PREGNANCY; PROGRAM EVALUATION; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SOUTH AFRICA;

EID: 46249119588     PISSN: 02569574     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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