HIV and pregnancy intentions: Do services adequately respond to women's needs?

American Journal of Public Health

Volumn 98, Issue 10, 2008, Pages 1746-1750

  Gruskin, Sofia ^a   Firestone, Rebecca ^a   MacCarthy, Sarah ^a   Ferguson, Laura ^a  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEALTH SERVICE; HEALTH STATUS; HIGHLY ACTIVE ANTIRETROVIRAL THERAPY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; LIFESPAN; NOTE; PREGNANCY; REPRODUCTION; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REVIEW; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY;

ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HEALTH POLICY; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INTENTION; MATERNAL HEALTH SERVICES; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; STEREOTYPING; WOMEN;

EID: 52449111593     PISSN: 00900036     EISSN: 15410048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2008.137232     Document Type: Note

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