Economic and Social Factors are Some of the Most Common Barriers Preventing Women from Accessing Maternal and Newborn Child Health (MNCH) and Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission (PMTCT) Services: A Literature Review

AIDS and Behavior

Volumn 18, Issue , 2014, Pages 516-530

  hIarlaithe, Micheal O ^a   Grede, Nils ^a   de Pee, Saskia ^a   Bloem, Martin ^a  

^a World Food Programme   (Italy)

Author keywords

Access; Adherence; MNCH; PMTCT; Retention in care

Indexed keywords

CHILD; CHILD HEALTH; CHILD HEALTH CARE; CLASSIFICATION; FEMALE; HEALTH CENTER; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS; MANAGER; MENTAL HEALTH; NEWBORN; PHYSIOLOGY; POVERTY; QUANTITATIVE STUDY; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOCIAL NORM; STIGMA; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; MOTHER; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; PRENATAL CARE; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; PREVENTIVE HEALTH SERVICE; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL STIGMA; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SOCIOECONOMICS; UTILIZATION; VERTICAL TRANSMISSION;

ANTIRETROVIRUS AGENT;

ANTI-RETROVIRAL AGENTS; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFECTIOUS DISEASE TRANSMISSION, VERTICAL; MATERNAL-CHILD HEALTH CENTERS; MOTHERS; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; PRENATAL CARE; PREVENTIVE HEALTH SERVICES; SOCIAL STIGMA; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 84922391250     PISSN: 10907165     EISSN: 15733254     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10461-014-0756-5     Document Type: Article

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