High PMTCT program uptake and coverage of mothers, their partners, and babies in Northern Uganda: Achievements and lessons learned over 10 years of implementation (2002-2011)

Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes

Volumn 62, Issue 5, 2013, Pages

  Bannink Mbazzi, Femke ^a   Lowicki Zucca, Massimo ^a   Ojom, Lawrence ^a   Kabasomi, Sarah V ^a   Esiru, Godfrey ^b   Homsy, Jaco ^c  

^a AVSI Uganda   (Uganda)

^b MINISTRY OF HEALTH   (Uganda)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Africa; Communitybased interventions; Conflict and post conflict setting; Early infant HIV diagnosis and care; HIV; Male involvement; Northern Uganda; Operational research; Prevention to mother to child HIV transmission

Indexed keywords

ANTIRETROVIRUS AGENT; EFAVIRENZ; LAMIVUDINE; LAMIVUDINE PLUS ZIDOVUDINE; NEVIRAPINE; STAVUDINE; ZIDOVUDINE;

ADULT; BABY; CHILD; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS SOFTWARE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEALTH SERVICE; HIV TEST; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS PREVALENCE; INFANT; INFECTION PREVENTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL CARE; MOTHER; MULTICENTER STUDY; PATIENT COUNSELING; PMTCT PROGRAM; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREDICTIVE ANALYTICS SOFTWARE STATISTICS 18; PREGNANT WOMAN; PRENATAL CARE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SOCIAL CARE; SOCIAL SUPPORT; UGANDA;

ANTI-HIV AGENTS; ANTIBODIES, VIRAL; DNA, VIRAL; FEMALE; HIV; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INFANT; INFECTIOUS DISEASE TRANSMISSION, VERTICAL; MALE; MOTHERS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; PREVALENCE; SEXUAL PARTNERS; UGANDA;

EID: 84876409432     PISSN: 15254135     EISSN: 10779450     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/QAI.0b013e318282d27f     Document Type: Review

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