Assessment of utilization of provider-initiated HIV testing and counseling as an intervention for prevention of mother to child transmission of HIV and associated factors among pregnant women in Gondar town, North West Ethiopia

BMC Public Health

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Malaju, Marelign Tilahun ^a   Alene, Getu Degu ^b  

^a ARBA MINCH UNIVERSITY   (Ethiopia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GONDAR   (Ethiopia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; COUNSELING; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; ETHIOPIA; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; MALE; MATERNAL AGE; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PREGNANT WOMAN; PRENATAL CARE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SEXUALITY; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; UTILIZATION REVIEW; VERTICAL TRANSMISSION;

ADULT; COUNSELING; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; ETHIOPIA; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INFECTIOUS DISEASE TRANSMISSION, VERTICAL; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MATERNAL AGE; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; PREGNANT WOMEN; PRENATAL CARE; SEXUAL PARTNERS;

EID: 84861048791     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-12-226     Document Type: Article

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