Challenges and successes of HIV voluntary counselling and testing programme in antenatal clinics in greater Kingston, Jamaica

West Indian Medical Journal

Volumn 57, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 269-273

  Moore, J ^a,b   Palmer, P ^a,b   Anderson Allen, M ^a,c   Billings, C ^a,d   McDonald Kerr, C ^a,e,f   Chirstie, Celia D C ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES   (Jamaica)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF THE WEST INDIES   (Jamaica)

^c Victoria Jubilee Maternity Hospital   (Jamaica)

^d Comprehensive Health Centre ^*  (Jamaica)

^e Bustamante Hospital for Children   (Jamaica)

^f Gynaecology and Paediatrics ^*  (Jamaica)

^g THE UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES   (Trinidad and Tobago)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ZIDOVUDINE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL MILK; AWARENESS; CHILD CARE; CONDOM; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HEALTH EDUCATION; HIGH RISK BEHAVIOR; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFECTION CONTROL; JAMAICA; LIFESTYLE MODIFICATION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NURSE TRAINING; NURSING RESEARCH; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PATIENT COUNSELING; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL PERIOD; PRENATAL SCREENING; QUALITY CONTROL; SCREENING TEST; SELF CARE; SELF EVALUATION; STIGMA;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; DIRECTIVE COUNSELING; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH EDUCATION; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INFECTIOUS DISEASE TRANSMISSION, VERTICAL; JAMAICA; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; PRENATAL CARE; PSYCHOTHERAPY; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK-TAKING; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 55749099949     PISSN: 00433144     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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