Factors associated with access to HIV care and treatment in a prevention of mother to child transmission programme in urban Zimbabwe

Journal of the International AIDS Society

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Muchedzi, Auxilia ^a   Chandisarewa, Winfreda ^a   Keatinge, Jo ^b   Stranix Chibanda, Lynda ^c   Woelk, Godfrey ^a   Mbizvo, Elizabeth ^d   Shetty, Avinash K ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZIMBABWE   (Zimbabwe)

^b ELIZABETH GLASER PEDIATRIC AIDS FOUNDATION   (United States)

^c UZ UCSF   (Zimbabwe)

^d MINISTRY OF HEALTH AND CHILD CARE   (Zimbabwe)

^e WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTI HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FEMALE; HEALTH; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; MALE; MOTHER; PREGNANCY; VERTICAL TRANSMISSION; ZIMBABWE;

ADULT; ANTI-HIV AGENTS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INFECTIOUS DISEASE TRANSMISSION, VERTICAL; MALE; MOTHERS; PREGNANCY; URBAN HEALTH; YOUNG ADULT; ZIMBABWE;

EID: 77957317068     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17582652     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1758-2652-13-38     Document Type: Article

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