Uptake of prevention of mother-to-child-transmission using Option B+ in northern rural Malawi: A retrospective cohort study

Sexually Transmitted Infections

Volumn 90, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 309-314

  Price, Alison J ^a   Kayange, Michael ^b   Zaba, Basia ^a   Chimbwandira, Frank M ^b   Jahn, Andreas ^b   Chirwa, Zengani ^b   Dasgupta, Aisha N Z ^a   Katundu, Cynthia ^c   Saul, Jacqueline L ^a   Glynn, Judith R ^a   Koole, Olivier ^a   Crampin, Amelia C ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b MINISTRY OF HEALTH   (Malawi)

^c KARONGA PREVENTION STUDY   (Malawi)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NEVIRAPINE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; DELIVERY; DEMOGRAPHY; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HIV TEST; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTED PATIENT; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALAWI; PATIENT CARE; PREGNANT WOMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUERPERIUM; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RURAL AREA; VERTICAL TRANSMISSION;

ANTENATAL HIV; CHILDREN; PREVENTION;

ADENINE; ADULT; ANTI-HIV AGENTS; ANTIRETROVIRAL THERAPY, HIGHLY ACTIVE; BENZOXAZINES; CHEMOPREVENTION; COHORT STUDIES; FEMALE; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFECTIOUS DISEASE TRANSMISSION, VERTICAL; LAMIVUDINE; MALAWI; NEVIRAPINE; ORGANOPHOSPHONATES; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; PRENATAL CARE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RURAL POPULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84901936823     PISSN: 13684973     EISSN: 14723263     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/sextrans-2013-051336     Document Type: Article

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