Health workers' views on quality of prevention of mother-to-child transmission and postnatal care for HIV-infected women and their children

Human Resources for Health

Volumn 7, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Nguyen, Thu Anh ^a   Oosterhoff, Pauline ^b   Pham, Yen Ngoc ^b   Hardon, Anita ^c   Wright, Pamela ^b  

^a HANOI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Viet Nam)

^b Medical Committee Netherlands Vietnam   (Viet Nam)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

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EID: 66349098991     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14784491     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1478-4491-7-39     Document Type: Article

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