Antiretroviral drugs in the cupboard are not enough: The impact of health systems' performance on mother-to-child transmission of HIV

Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes

Volumn 56, Issue 2, 2011, Pages

  Barker, Pierre M ^a,b   Mphatswe, Wendy ^c   Rollins, Nigel ^c,d  

^a INSTITUTE FOR HEALTHCARE IMPROVEMENT   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

^d WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

antiretroviral drugs; health system; performance; PMTCT; transmission

Indexed keywords

ANTIRETROVIRUS AGENT; NEVIRAPINE; ZIDOVUDINE;

ARTICLE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEALTH PROGRAM; HIGHLY ACTIVE ANTIRETROVIRAL THERAPY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFANT; PREGNANT WOMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; VERTICAL TRANSMISSION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

ANTI-RETROVIRAL AGENTS; ANTIRETROVIRAL THERAPY, HIGHLY ACTIVE; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; FEMALE; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFECTIOUS DISEASE TRANSMISSION, VERTICAL; PREGNANCY; QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE; SOUTH AFRICA; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 78751611198     PISSN: 15254135     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/QAI.0b013e3181fdbf20     Document Type: Article

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