An offer you can't refuse? Provider-initiated HIV testing in antenatal clinics in rural Malawi

Health Policy and Planning

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 307-315

  Angotti, Nicole ^a   Dionne, Kim Yi ^b   Gaydosh, Lauren ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

antenatal care; HIV testing; Malawi; rights

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERVIEW; MALAWI; MALE; MASS SCREENING; POLICY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PRENATAL CARE; RURAL POPULATION; VERTICAL TRANSMISSION;

FEMALE; FOCUS GROUPS; HIV SEROPOSITIVITY; HUMANS; INFECTIOUS DISEASE TRANSMISSION, VERTICAL; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALAWI; MALE; MASS SCREENING; MATERNAL HEALTH SERVICES; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; PRENATAL CARE; PUBLIC POLICY; RURAL POPULATION;

EID: 79959718332     PISSN: 02681080     EISSN: 14602237     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/heapol/czq066     Document Type: Article

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