Free formula milk in the prevention of mother-to-child transmission programme: Voices of a peri-urban community in South Africa on policy change

Health Policy and Planning

Volumn 28, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 761-768

  Ijumba, Petrida ^a,d   Doherty, Tanya ^a,b   Jackson, Debra ^b   Tomlinson, Mark ^c   Sanders, David ^b   Persson, Lars Åke ^d  

^a SOUTH AFRICAN MEDICAL RESEARCH COUNCIL   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WESTERN CAPE   (South Africa)

^c STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^d UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

community perceptions; focus group discussions; Formula feeding; HIV; policy change; qualitative research

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL MILK; COMMUNITY PERCEPTIONS; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ECONOMICS; FEE; FEMALE; FOCUS GROUP DISCUSSIONS; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFANT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; NEWBORN; POLICY CHANGE; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SOUTH AFRICA; URBAN POPULATION; VERTICAL TRANSMISSION;

COMMUNITY PERCEPTIONS; FOCUS GROUP DISCUSSIONS; FORMULA FEEDING; HIV; POLICY CHANGE; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH;

ADOLESCENT; FEES AND CHARGES; FEMALE; FOCUS GROUPS; HEALTH POLICY; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT FORMULA; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFECTIOUS DISEASE TRANSMISSION, VERTICAL; MALE; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SOUTH AFRICA; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 84886037852     PISSN: 02681080     EISSN: 14602237     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/heapol/czs114     Document Type: Article

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