"it is her responsibility": Partner involvement in prevention of mother to child transmission of HIV programmes, northern Tanzania

Journal of the International AIDS Society

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Falnes, Eli Fjeld ^a   Moland, Karen Marie ^b   Tylleskär, Thorkild ^a   De Paoli, Marina Manuela ^c   Msuya, Sia E ^d   Engebretsen, Ingunn M S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b BERGEN UNIVERSITY COLLEGE   (Norway)

^c Fafo Institute for Applied International Studies   (Norway)

^d KILIMANJARO CHRISTIAN MEDICAL UNIVERSITY COLLEGE   (Tanzania)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; CONDOM; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; ETHNICITY; FATHER; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEALTH PROGRAM; HIV TEST; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; IMMUNIZATION; INFANT FEEDING; INFECTION PREVENTION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERVIEW; MALE; MOTHER; PATIENT COUNSELING; PRENATAL CARE; PREVENTION OF MOTHER TO CHILD TRANSMISSION PROGRAM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RELIGION; RURAL AREA; SPOUSE; TANZANIA; URBAN AREA; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; INFANT; INFECTION CONTROL; METHODOLOGY; PARENT; PATIENT ATTITUDE; RURAL POPULATION; SEXUALITY; STATISTICS; URBAN POPULATION; VERTICAL TRANSMISSION;

ADULT; COMMUNICABLE DISEASE CONTROL; FEMALE; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INFANT; INFECTIOUS DISEASE TRANSMISSION, VERTICAL; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; PARENTS; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; RURAL POPULATION; SEXUAL PARTNERS; TANZANIA; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 79955077600     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17582652     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1758-2652-14-21     Document Type: Article

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