Integration of PMTCT and antenatal services improves combination antiretroviral therapy uptake for HIV-positive pregnant women in Southern Zambia: A prototype for option B+?

Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes

Volumn 70, Issue 4, 2015, Pages e123-e129

  Herlihy, Julie M ^a,b,c   Hamomba, Leoda ^d   Bonawitz, Rachael ^a,b   Goggin, Caitlin E ^d,e   Sambambi, Kennedy ^d   Mwale, Jonas ^f   Musonda, Victor ^d   Musokatwane, Kebby ^g   Hopkins, Kathryn L ^d,h   Semrau, Katherine ^a   Hammond, Emily E ^a   Duncan, Julie ^d   Knapp, Anna B ^a   Thea, Donald M ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b BOSTON MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d Zambia Center for Applied Health Research and Development   (Zambia)

^e MARIE STOPES INTERNATIONAL   (United Kingdom)

^f CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION   (United States)

^g Mother and Child Health   (Zambia)

^h UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

Author keywords

AIDS; Antenatal services; Attrition; Community based follow up; HIV; Integration; Loss to follow up; Maternal and child health services; Option B+; Prevention of mother to child transmission of HIV; Task shifting; Vertical transmission

Indexed keywords

ANTI HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS AGENT; ANTIRETROVIRUS AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CD4 LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; CHILD HEALTH CARE; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICE; HIGHLY ACTIVE ANTIRETROVIRAL THERAPY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTED PATIENT; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; INFANT; INFECTION PREVENTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PREGNANT WOMAN; PRENATAL CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VERTICAL TRANSMISSION; ZAMBIA; COHORT ANALYSIS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HIV INFECTIONS; MALE; MEDICATION COMPLIANCE; NEWBORN; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; PROCEDURES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TRANSMISSION; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; ANTI-RETROVIRAL AGENTS; COHORT STUDIES; CONTROLLED BEFORE-AFTER STUDIES; FEMALE; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFECTIOUS DISEASE TRANSMISSION, VERTICAL; MALE; MEDICATION ADHERENCE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; PRENATAL CARE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; YOUNG ADULT; ZAMBIA;

EID: 84943448990     PISSN: 15254135     EISSN: 10779450     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/qai.0000000000000760     Document Type: Article

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