Attitudes and practices of health care workers toward routine HIV testing of infants in Côte d'Ivoire: The PEDI-TEST ANRS 12165 project

Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes

Volumn 57, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2011, Pages

  Oga, Maxime Aimé ^a   Ndondoki, Camille ^b   Brou, Hermann ^a   Salmon, Amadou ^a   Bosse Amani, Clarisse ^a   Timite Konan, Marguerite ^a,c   Leroy, Valériane ^b  

^a Programme PAC CI   (Côte d’Ivoire)

^b INSERM   (France)

^c CENTRE HOSPITALIER UNIVERSITAIRE DE YOPOUGON   (Côte d’Ivoire)

Author keywords

acceptability; early infant testing; health care workers; HIV infection; primary health care; West Africa

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COTE D'IVOIRE; COUNSELING; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE PRACTICE; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HIGHLY ACTIVE ANTIRETROVIRAL THERAPY; HIV TEST; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AIDS SERODIAGNOSIS; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; COTE D'IVOIRE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INFANT;

EID: 79959770296     PISSN: 15254135     EISSN: 10779450     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/QAI.0b013e31821fd487     Document Type: Article

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