Follow-up of HIV-infected women diagnosed by antenatal screening in Barbados from 1996-2004

AIDS Patient Care and STDs

Volumn 22, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 715-721

  Kumar, Alok ^a   Kilaru, Krishna R ^b   Kumari, Geeta ^a   Forde, Sheila ^b   Waterman, Ira ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES   (Jamaica)

^b Ministry of Health   (Barbados)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BARBADOS; CONDOM; DESCRIPTIVE RESEARCH; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTED PATIENT; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PATIENT CARE; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUALITY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ADULT; ANTIRETROVIRAL THERAPY, HIGHLY ACTIVE; BARBADOS; CONDOMS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; SEXUAL PARTNERS;

EID: 51849136133     PISSN: 10872914     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/apc.2007.0155     Document Type: Article

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