Missed opportunities to prevent mother-to-child-transmission: Systematic review and meta-analysis

AIDS

Volumn 26, Issue 18, 2012, Pages 2361-2373

  Wettstein, Celina ^a   Mugglin, Catrina ^a   Egger, Matthias ^a,b   Blaser, Nello ^a   Vizcaya, Luisa S ^a   Estill, Janne ^a   Bender, Nicole ^a   Davies, Mary Ann ^b   Wandeler, Gilles ^a,c   Keiser, Olivia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

early infant diagnosis; linkage to care; loss to follow up; mortality; preantiretroviral therapy; prevention of mother to child transmission; prophylaxis

Indexed keywords

ANTIRETROVIRUS AGENT; EMTRICITABINE; INDINAVIR; LAMIVUDINE; NEVIRAPINE; RITONAVIR; TENOFOVIR; ZIDOVUDINE;

AFRICA; CD4 LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; CHILD HEALTH CARE; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; HIV TEST; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; MATERNAL CARE; META ANALYSIS; MORTALITY; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREGNANT WOMAN; PRENATAL CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUERPERIUM; REVIEW; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VERTICAL TRANSMISSION; VIRUS TRANSMISSION;

ADULT; AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; ANTI-HIV AGENTS; CD4 LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFECTIOUS DISEASE TRANSMISSION, VERTICAL; MALE; MOTHERS; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; POST-EXPOSURE PROPHYLAXIS; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL CARE; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; PROGRAM EVALUATION;

EID: 84870242396     PISSN: 02699370     EISSN: 14735571     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/QAD.0b013e328359ab0c     Document Type: Review

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