Male participation in prevention programmes of mother to child transmission of HIV: A protocol for a systematic review to identify barriers, facilitators and reported interventions

Systematic Reviews

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Morfaw, Frederick L I ^a   Thabane, Lehana ^b,c   Mbuagbaw, Lawrence C E ^c,d   Nana, Philip N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YAOUNDÉ I   (Cameroon)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d YAOUNDÉ CENTRAL HOSPITAL   (Cameroon)

Author keywords

HIV; Male participation; PMTCT; systematic review protocol

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INTERVENTION STUDY; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MEDICAL SUBJECT HEADINGS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT COUNSELING; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRENATAL CARE; PUBLISHING; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SOCIOECONOMICS; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; VIRUS TRANSMISSION; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FEMALE; LITERATURE; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PREGNANCY; VERTICAL TRANSMISSION;

FEMALE; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INFECTIOUS DISEASE TRANSMISSION, VERTICAL; MALE; PREGNANCY; RESEARCH DESIGN; REVIEW LITERATURE AS TOPIC;

EID: 84876181082     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20464053     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/2046-4053-1-13     Document Type: Article

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