Follow-up Survey of Women Who Have Undergone a Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission Program in a Resource-Poor Setting in South Africa

Journal of the Association of Nurses in AIDS Care

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 450-460

  Peltzer, Karl ^a   Mosala, Thabang ^a   Dana, Pelisa ^a   Fomundam, Henry ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

adherence; follow up study; HIV status; nevirapine; prevention of mother to child transmission; resource poor setting; South Africa

Indexed keywords

NEVIRAPINE; RNA DIRECTED DNA POLYMERASE INHIBITOR;

ARTICLE; BABY FOOD; BREAST FEEDING; COHORT ANALYSIS; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; NEWBORN; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; SOUTH AFRICA;

BREAST FEEDING; COHORT STUDIES; DATA COLLECTION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION, INFECTIOUS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEALTH CARE RATIONING; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INFANT FOOD; INFANT, NEWBORN; NEVIRAPINE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE INHIBITORS; SOUTH AFRICA;

EID: 55549142215     PISSN: 10553290     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jana.2008.05.006     Document Type: Article

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