A retrospective study of Human Immunodeficiency Virus transmission, mortality and loss to follow-up among infants in the first 18 months of life in a prevention of mother-to-child transmission programme in an urban hospital in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

BMC Pediatrics

Volumn 12, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Chetty, Terusha ^a   Knight, Stephen ^a   Giddy, Janet ^b   Crankshaw, Tamaryn L ^b   Butler, Lisa M ^c,d   Newell, Marie Louise ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

^b MCCORD HOSPITAL   (South Africa)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

HIV exposed infants; LTFU; Postnatal clinic; Prevention of Mother to Child Transmission

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFANT; INFANT MORTALITY; INFECTION PREVENTION; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRENATAL CARE; SOUTH AFRICA; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

ADULT; ANTI-RETROVIRAL AGENTS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HIV INFECTIONS; HOSPITALS, URBAN; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFECTIOUS DISEASE TRANSMISSION, VERTICAL; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; LOST TO FOLLOW-UP; MALE; POSTNATAL CARE; PREVENTIVE HEALTH SERVICES; PROGRAM EVALUATION; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SOUTH AFRICA;

EID: 84865836685     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712431     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2431-12-146     Document Type: Article

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