Outcomes and challenges of scaling up comprehensive PMTCT services in rural Swaziland, Southern Africa

AIDS Care - Psychological and Socio-Medical Aspects of AIDS/HIV

Volumn 22, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1130-1135

  Bancheno, Wouhabe Marai ^a   Mwanyumba, Fabian ^b   Mareverwa, Joyce ^a  

^a Good Shepherd Hospital   (Swaziland)

^b UNICEF   (United States)

Author keywords

comprehensive PMTCT; efficacious PMTC drug regimen; HIV diagnosis of infants; scaling up PMTCT

Indexed keywords

CD4 ANTIGEN; LAMIVUDINE; NEVIRAPINE; ZIDOVUDINE;

ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FEMALE; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MOTHER FETUS RELATIONSHIP; NEWBORN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRENATAL CARE; PREVALENCE; PREVENTIVE HEALTH SERVICE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOMMENDED DRUG DOSE; RURAL AREA; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; SOUTH AFRICA;

ADULT; AIDS SERODIAGNOSIS; ANTI-HIV AGENTS; FEMALE; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT CARE; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFECTIOUS DISEASE TRANSMISSION, VERTICAL; MATERNAL HEALTH SERVICES; NEONATAL SCREENING; NEVIRAPINE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; PRENATAL CARE; PREVALENCE; PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT; PROGRAM EVALUATION; RURAL HEALTH; SWAZILAND; ZIDOVUDINE;

EID: 77956470763     PISSN: 09540121     EISSN: 13600451     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09540121003615079     Document Type: Article

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