Timing of maternal HIV testing and uptake of prevention of mother-to-child transmission interventions among women and their infected infants in Johannesburg, South Africa

Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes

Volumn 65, Issue 5, 2014, Pages

  Technau, Karl Günter ^a   Kalk, Emma ^b   Coovadia, Ashraf ^a   Black, Vivian ^c   Pickerill, Sam ^a   Mellins, Claude A ^d   Abrams, Elaine J ^e   Strehlau, Renate ^a   Kuhn, Louise ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^d NEW YORK STATE PSYCHIATRIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

^e ICAP Mailman School of Public Health Department of Pediatrics ^*  (United States)

^f Taub Institute for Research on Alzheimer's Disease and the Aging Brain and the Gertrude H Sergievsky Center   (United States)

Author keywords

Children; HIV infection; Maternal diagnosis; Pregnancy; Vertical transmission

Indexed keywords

EMTRICITABINE PLUS TENOFOVIR DISOPROXIL; NEVIRAPINE; ZIDOVUDINE;

ADULT; CHILD; CONFERENCE PAPER; FEEDING; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HIV TEST; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MOTHER CHILD RELATION; MOTHER TO CHILD TRANSMISSION; PARITY; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SINGLE DRUG DOSE; SOUTH AFRICA; STRUCTURED QUESTIONNAIRE; VERTICAL TRANSMISSION;

ADULT; CHEMOPREVENTION; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFECTIOUS DISEASE TRANSMISSION, VERTICAL; MALE; PREGNANCY; PREVENTIVE HEALTH SERVICES; QUESTIONNAIRES; SOUTH AFRICA; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84898719808     PISSN: 15254135     EISSN: 10779450     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/QAI.0000000000000068     Document Type: Conference Paper

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