Rapid testing at labor and delivery to prevent mother-to-child HIV transmission in developing settings: Issues and challenges

Women's Health

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 55-62

  Pai, Nitika Pant ^a   Klein, Marina B ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Delivery; Institutionalization; Labor; Rapid HIV tests

Indexed keywords

ANTIRETROVIRUS AGENT; NEVIRAPINE;

ARTICLE; BREAST FEEDING; COST CONTROL; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; CULTURAL FACTOR; CULTURAL SENSITIVITY; DELIVERY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; ECONOMIC ASPECT; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EPIDEMIC; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE AVAILABILITY; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS PREVALENCE; INDIA; INFECTION PREVENTION; INTRAPARTUM CARE; LABOR; PATIENT COUNSELING; PERINATAL INFECTION; POINT OF CARE TESTING; PREGNANCY; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOCIAL DISCRIMINATION; STIGMA; VERTICAL TRANSMISSION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; WESTERN BLOTTING;

AIDS SERODIAGNOSIS; COUNSELING; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INFECTIOUS DISEASE TRANSMISSION, VERTICAL; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; PATIENT EDUCATION AS TOPIC; PREGNANCY; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 59349100039     PISSN: 17455057     EISSN: 17455065     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2217/17455057.5.1.55     Document Type: Article

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