Systematic review of public health research on prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV in India with focus on provision and utilization of cascade of PMTCT services

BMC Public Health

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Darak, Shrinivas ^a,b   Panditrao, Mayuri ^c   Parchure, Ritu ^b,d   Kulkarni, Vinay ^b   Kulkarni, Sanjeevani ^b   Janssen, Fanny ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b PRAYAS Health Group   (India)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

India; PMTCT; Research output; Systematic review

Indexed keywords

CHILD; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH SERVICE; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INDIA; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PUBLIC HEALTH; REVIEW; UTILIZATION REVIEW; VERTICAL TRANSMISSION;

CHILD; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INDIA; INFECTIOUS DISEASE TRANSMISSION, VERTICAL; MATERNAL HEALTH SERVICES; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; PUBLIC HEALTH;

EID: 84860340493     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-12-320     Document Type: Article

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