The Tingathe programme: A pilot intervention using community health workers to create a continuum of care in the prevention of mother to child transmission of HIV (PMTCT) cascade of services in Malawi

Journal of the International AIDS Society

Volumn 15, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Kim, Maria H ^a   Ahmed, Saeed ^a   Buck, W Chris ^b   Preidis, Geoffrey A ^a   Hosseinipour, Mina C ^c,d   Bhalakia, Avni ^b   Nanthuru, Debora ^b   Kazembe, Peter N ^b   Chimbwandira, Frank ^e   Giordano, Thomas P ^a   Chiao, Elizabeth Y ^a   Schutze, Gordon E ^a   Kline, Mark W ^a  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Fund Children's Clinical Center of Excellence   (Malawi)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA PROJECT   (Malawi)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e MINISTRY OF HEALTH   (Malawi)

Author keywords

Community engagement; Community health workers; Early infant diagnosis (EID); HIV; Loss to follow up; Paediatric HIV; Prevention of mother to child transmission (PMTCT); Retention; Task shifting

Indexed keywords

ANTI HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; COMMUNITY CARE; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FEMALE; HEALTH AUXILIARY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFANT; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALAWI; MALE; PILOT STUDY; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; PRENATAL CARE; PROGRAM EVALUATION; VERTICAL TRANSMISSION; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; ANTI-HIV AGENTS; COMMUNITY HEALTH WORKERS; COMMUNITY NETWORKS; FEMALE; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INFANT; INFECTIOUS DISEASE TRANSMISSION, VERTICAL; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALAWI; MALE; PILOT PROJECTS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; PRENATAL CARE; PROGRAM EVALUATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84878547366     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17582652     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7448/IAS.15.4.17389     Document Type: Article

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