Evaluation of the prevention of parent to child transmission program in a rural tertiary care hospital of West Bengal, India

Indian Journal of Community Medicine

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 491-494

  Mandal, Sukanta ^a   Bhattacharya, Rudra Nath ^a   Chakraborty, Manasi ^a   Pal, Pratim Partha ^a   Roy, Samir Ghosh ^a   Mukherjee, Gautam ^a  

^a NORTH BENGAL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (India)

Author keywords

Evaluation; PPTCT program; pregnant women; rural tertiary care hospital

Indexed keywords

EID: 78651328115     PISSN: 09700218     EISSN: 19983581     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4103/0970-0218.74352     Document Type: Article

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