Facilitating HIV testing, care and treatment for orphans and vulnerable children aged five years and younger through community-based early childhood development playcentres in rural Zimbabwe

Journal of the International AIDS Society

Volumn 15, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Patel, Diana ^a   Matyanga, Priscilla ^a   Nyamundaya, Tichaona ^b   Chimedza, Delia ^a   Webb, Karen ^a   Engelsmann, Barbara ^a  

^a Organization of Public Health Interventions and Development (OPHID) Trust   (Zimbabwe)

^b ELIZABETH GLASER PEDIATRIC AIDS FOUNDATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Capacity building; Care and support; Community based interventions; Early childhood development; HIV and AIDS; Orphans and vulnerable children; Paediatric HIV; Participatory methods; PMTCT

Indexed keywords

ANTI HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; COMMUNITY CARE; DAY CARE; FEMALE; GENETICS; HEALTH; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFANT; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MALE; ORPHANED CHILD; PRESCHOOL CHILD; VIROLOGY; YOUNG ADULT; ZIMBABWE;

ADULT; ANTI-HIV AGENTS; CHILD; CHILD DAY CARE CENTERS; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD, ORPHANED; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMMUNITY NETWORKS; FEMALE; HIV INFECTIONS; HIV-1; HUMANS; INFANT; MALE; RURAL HEALTH; YOUNG ADULT; ZIMBABWE;

EID: 84883242631     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17582652     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7448/IAS.15.4.17404     Document Type: Article

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