Uptake of guidelines on prevention of mother-tochild transmission of HIV in rural Tanzania: Time for change

Swiss Medical Weekly

Volumn 143, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Gamell, Anna ^a,b   Letang, Emili ^a,b,c   Jullu, Boniface ^b   Mwaigomole, Geoffrey ^b   Nyamtema, Angelo ^d   Hatz, Christoph ^a   Battegay, Manuel ^e   Tanner, Marcel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^b IFAKARA HEALTH INSTITUTE   (Tanzania)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^d Saint Francis Referral Hospital   (Tanzania)

^e UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Africa; Antiretrovirals; Guidelines; HIV; PMTCT

Indexed keywords

LAMIVUDINE; NEVIRAPINE; ZIDOVUDINE; ANTIRETROVIRUS AGENT;

CESAREAN SECTION; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREGNANCY; PREVENTION MOTHER TO CHILD TRANSMISSION; PROPHYLAXIS; REVIEW; RISK; RURAL AREA; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; TANZANIA; AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; BREAST FEEDING; CD4 LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; DRUG ADMINISTRATION; DRUG COMBINATION; FEMALE; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; RURAL HEALTH CARE; STATISTICS; VERTICAL TRANSMISSION; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION; COMBINATION DRUG THERAPY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HIV INFECTIONS; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; PROTOCOL COMPLIANCE; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TRANSMISSION;

AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; ANTI-RETROVIRAL AGENTS; BREAST FEEDING; CD4 LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; FEMALE; GUIDELINE ADHERENCE; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INFECTIOUS DISEASE TRANSMISSION, VERTICAL; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; RURAL HEALTH SERVICES; TANZANIA; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 84877697410     PISSN: 14247860     EISSN: 14243997     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4414/smw.2013.13775     Document Type: Review

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