High rate of unintended pregnancies after knowing of HIV infection among HIV positive women under antiretroviral treatment in Kigali, Rwanda

BioScience Trends

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 255-263

  Kikuchi, Kimiyo ^a   Wakasugi, Naomi ^b   Poudel, Krishna C ^a   Sakisaka, Kayako ^a,c   Jimba, Masamine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^c CHUO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Contraceptive; HIV AIDS; Mother to child transmission; Rwanda; Unintended pregnancy

Indexed keywords

ANTIRETROVIRUS AGENT;

ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; PREGNANCY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK; RWANDA; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS; UNPLANNED PREGNANCY;

ANTI-RETROVIRAL AGENTS; CONTRACEPTION BEHAVIOR; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HIV INFECTIONS; HIV SEROPOSITIVITY; HUMANS; ODDS RATIO; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY, UNPLANNED; QUESTIONNAIRES; RWANDA; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 84857621841     PISSN: 18817815     EISSN: 18817823     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5582/bst.2011.v5.6.255     Document Type: Article

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