Health facility characteristics and their relationship to coverage of PMTCT of HIV services across four African countries: The PEARL study

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Ekouevi, Didier K ^a,b   Stringer, Elizabeth ^c   Coetzee, David ^d   Tih, Pius ^e   Creek, Tracy ^f   Stinson, Kathryn ^d   Westfall, Andrew O ^c   Welty, Thomas ^a,b   Chintu, Namwinga ^c   Chi, Benjamin H ^c   Wilfert, Cathy ^g   Shaffer, Nathan ^h   Stringer, Jeff ^c   Dabis, Francois ^b  

^a Programme PAC CI   (France)

^b INSERM   (France)

^c CENTRE FOR INFECTIOUS DISEASE RESEARCH IN ZAMBIA   (Zambia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^e Cameroon Baptist Health Convention Health Board ^*  (Cameroon)

^f CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^g ELIZABETH GLASER PEDIATRIC AIDS FOUNDATION   (United States)

^h WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CAMEROON; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; COTE D'IVOIRE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFECTION PREVENTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PATIENT EDUCATION; PATIENT SATISFACTION; PRENATAL CARE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SOUTH AFRICA; VERTICAL TRANSMISSION; ZAMBIA; AFRICA; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; MALE; STATISTICS;

AFRICA; CAMEROON; COTE D'IVOIRE; FEMALE; HEALTH FACILITIES; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INFECTIOUS DISEASE TRANSMISSION, VERTICAL; MALE; SOUTH AFRICA; ZAMBIA;

EID: 84856043517     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0029823     Document Type: Article

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