Perceptions of community members and healthcare workers on male involvement in prevention of mother-to-child transmission services in Khayelitsha, Cape Town, South Africa

PLoS ONE

Volumn 10, Issue 7, 2015, Pages

  Ladur, Alice Norah ^a,b   Colvin, Christopher J ^a   Stinson, Kathryn ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^b Africa Renewal University   (Uganda)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMMUNITY LIVING; COMMUNITY MEMBER; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFANT FEEDING; INFECTION PREVENTION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NURSE ATTITUDE; PLACENTAL TRANSFER; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL CARE; SOCIAL STRUCTURE; SOUTH AFRICAN; YOUNG ADULT; ADOLESCENT; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BREAST FEEDING; HIV INFECTIONS; NEWBORN; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; PSYCHOLOGY; PUBLIC OPINION; SEXUALITY; SOUTH AFRICA; SPOUSE; TRANSMISSION; VERTICAL TRANSMISSION; VIROLOGY;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BREAST FEEDING; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFECTIOUS DISEASE TRANSMISSION, VERTICAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; PRENATAL CARE; PUBLIC OPINION; SEXUAL PARTNERS; SOUTH AFRICA; SPOUSES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84942022776     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0133239     Document Type: Article

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