Integration of preventing mother-to-child transmission of HIV and syphilis testing and treatment in antenatal care services in the Northern Cape and Gauteng provinces, South Africa

Sexually Transmitted Diseases

Volumn 40, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 846-851

  Dinh, Thu Ha ^a,b,f   Kamb, Mary L ^b,f   Msimang, Veerle ^b,f   Likibi, Muptal ^d,f   Molebatsi, Thabo ^e,f   Goldman, Thurma ^a,f   Lewis, David A ^c,f  

^a CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^b CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR COMMUNICABLE DISEASES   (South Africa)

^d Gauteng Health Department   (South Africa)

^e Northern Cape Department of Health   (South Africa)

^f UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PENICILLIN DERIVATIVE;

ADULT; ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; FEMALE; HIV TEST; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFECTION PREVENTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; PREGNANCY; PREGNANT WOMAN; PRENATAL CARE; SOUTH AFRICA; SYPHILIS; SYPHILIS TEST;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; ANTI-HIV AGENTS; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFECTIOUS DISEASE TRANSMISSION, VERTICAL; MASS SCREENING; PENICILLINS; PRACTICE GUIDELINES AS TOPIC; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; PRENATAL CARE; PREVALENCE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SENTINEL SURVEILLANCE; SOUTH AFRICA; SYPHILIS;

EID: 84886045387     PISSN: 01485717     EISSN: 15374521     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/OLQ.0000000000000042     Document Type: Article

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