The prevention of mother-To-child transmission of HIV cascade analysis tool: Supporting health managers to improve facility-level service delivery

BMC Research Notes

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Gimbel, Sarah ^a,b   Voss, Joachim ^a   Mercer, Mary Anne ^a   Zierler, Brenda ^a   Gloyd, Stephen ^a,b   Coutinho, Maria De Joana ^b   Floriano, Florencia ^b   Cuembelo, Maria De Fatima ^c   Einberg, Jennifer ^d   Sherr, Kenneth ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b HEALTH ALLIANCE INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

^c EDUARDO MONDLANE UNIVERSITY   (Mozambique)

^d Licata Energy Environmental   (United States)

Author keywords

Cascade analysis; HIV; Implementation science; Mozambique; PMTCT; Systems analysis and improvement

Indexed keywords

CHILD; CLINICAL TRIAL; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHY; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE FACILITY; HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMAN; MOTHER; MOZAMBIQUE; POSTNATAL CARE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS; PREVENTION AND CONTROL; PROCEDURES; STANDARDS; VERTICAL TRANSMISSION;

CHILD; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; FEMALE; GEOGRAPHY; HEALTH FACILITIES; HEALTH PERSONNEL; HIV INFECTIONS; HUMANS; INFECTIOUS DISEASE TRANSMISSION, VERTICAL; MOTHERS; MOZAMBIQUE; POSTNATAL CARE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, INFECTIOUS;

EID: 84988928532     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17560500     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1756-0500-7-743     Document Type: Article

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