Adherence to HIV Care After Pregnancy Among Women in Sub-Saharan Africa: Falling Off the Cliff of the Treatment Cascade

Current HIV/AIDS Reports

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Psaros, Christina ^a,b   Remmert, Jocelyn E ^a   Bangsberg, David R ^a,b,c   Safren, Steven A ^a,b   Smit, Jennifer A ^d,e  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

^e UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIRETROVIRUS AGENT;

AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; FEMALE; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMAN; MEDICATION COMPLIANCE; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; PUERPERIUM; TRANSMISSION; VERTICAL TRANSMISSION;

AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; ANTI-RETROVIRAL AGENTS; FEMALE; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INFECTIOUS DISEASE TRANSMISSION, VERTICAL; MEDICATION ADHERENCE; PATIENT COMPLIANCE; POSTPARTUM PERIOD; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS;

EID: 84921887313     PISSN: 15483568     EISSN: 15483576     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11904-014-0252-6     Document Type: Review

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