Listening to health workers: Lessons from Eastern Uganda for strengthening the programme for the prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV

BMC Health Services Research

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Rujumba, Joseph ^a,b   Tumwine, James K ^a   Tylleskär, Thorkild ^b   Neema, Stella ^a   Heggenhougen, Harald K ^b  

^a MAKERERE UNIVERSITY   (Uganda)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; MALE; METHODOLOGY; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; UGANDA; VERTICAL TRANSMISSION;

ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HEALTH PROMOTION; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INFECTIOUS DISEASE TRANSMISSION, VERTICAL; MALE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; PROGRAM DEVELOPMENT; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; UGANDA;

EID: 84855412116     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6963-12-3     Document Type: Article

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