Easier said than done: World Health Organization recommendations for prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV - Areas of concern

AIDS Research and Human Retroviruses

Volumn 27, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 807-808

  Palombi, Leonardo ^a   Nielsen Saines, Karin ^b   Giuliano, Marina ^c   Marazzi, Maria Cristina ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROME TOR VERGATA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c ISTITUTO SUPERIORE DI SANITÀ   (Italy)

^d LUMSA UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EFAVIRENZ; NEVIRAPINE; ZIDOVUDINE;

AFRICA; ARTICLE; BREAST FEEDING; CD4 LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG SAFETY; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1 INFECTION; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTED PATIENT; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFANT FEEDING; INFECTION PREVENTION; LIVER TOXICITY; MATERNAL TREATMENT; MONOTHERAPY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREGNANCY OUTCOME; PRENATAL CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; TERATOGENICITY; TREATMENT CONTRAINDICATION; TREATMENT INDICATION; VIROTHERAPY; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; VULNERABLE POPULATION; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; ANTI-HIV AGENTS; BENZOXAZINES; BREAST FEEDING; CD4 LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; CHILD; FEMALE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HIV; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INFANT; INFECTIOUS DISEASE TRANSMISSION, VERTICAL; NEVIRAPINE; POLICY; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; PUBLIC HEALTH; WORLD HEALTH;

EID: 80051525756     PISSN: 08892229     EISSN: 19318405     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/aid.2010.0296     Document Type: Article

References (5)

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