Protecting infants of HIV-positive mothers in Malawi

The Lancet

Volumn 379, Issue 9835, 2012, Pages 2405-2407

  Kuhn, Louise ^a   Coovadia, Hoosen M ^b,c  

^a New York Presbyterian Columbia University Medical Center   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NEVIRAPINE;

ANTIVIRAL THERAPY; BREAST FEEDING; CD4 LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; CHILD HEALTH; EPIDEMIC; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTED PATIENT; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFECTION PREVENTION; MALAWI; MATERNAL DISEASE; NOTE; PLACENTAL TRANSFER; PREGNANT WOMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; WATER CONTAMINATION;

EID: 84862893339     PISSN: 01406736     EISSN: 1474547X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0140-6736(12)60483-8     Document Type: Note

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