Primiparous mothers' knowledge about mother-to-Child transmission of HIV in Lusaka, Zambia

Midwifery

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2009, Pages

  Petrovic, Karin ^a   Maimbolwa, Margareth ^b   Johansson, Eva ^a,c  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZAMBIA   (Zambia)

^c NORDIC SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Breast feeding; HIV; Knowledge; Mother to baby transmission; Qualitative study; Zambia

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BREAST FEEDING; BREAST MILK; COUNSELING; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; EDUCATION; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; METHODOLOGY; MOTHER; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; NEWBORN; PATIENT EDUCATION; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL CARE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; STATISTICS; VERTICAL TRANSMISSION; VIROLOGY; ZAMBIA;

ADULT; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BREAST FEEDING; COUNSELING; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFECTIOUS DISEASE TRANSMISSION, VERTICAL; MILK, HUMAN; MOTHERS; NEEDS ASSESSMENT; PATIENT EDUCATION AS TOPIC; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL CARE; ZAMBIA;

EID: 70449535890     PISSN: 02666138     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.midw.2007.08.005     Document Type: Article

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