Attitudes to routine HIV counselling and testing, and knowledge about prevention of mother to child transmission of HIV in eastern Uganda: A cross-sectional survey among antenatal attendees

Journal of the International AIDS Society

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Byamugisha, Robert ^a,c   Tumwine, James K ^b   Ndeezi, Grace ^b,c   Karamagi, Charles A S ^b,c   Tylleskär, Thorkild ^c  

^a Mbale Regional Referral Hospital   (Uganda)

^b MAKERERE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF HEALTH SCIENCES   (Uganda)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BREAST FEEDING EDUCATION; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; COUNSELING; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH SCIENCE; HEALTH SURVEY; HIV TEST; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFANT FEEDING; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL EXAMINATION; MULTICENTER STUDY; OUTPATIENT DEPARTMENT; PLACENTAL TRANSFER; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK; UGANDA; ADOLESCENT; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; VERTICAL TRANSMISSION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; COUNSELING; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INFECTIOUS DISEASE TRANSMISSION, VERTICAL; MIDDLE AGED; QUESTIONNAIRES; UGANDA; WOMEN; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 78649945285     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17582652     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1758-2652-13-52     Document Type: Article

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