The Achilles' heel of prevention to mother-to-child transmission of HIV: Protocol implementation, uptake, and sustainability

• Main Authors: Violeta J. Rodriguez (Author), Richard P. LaCabe (Author), C. Kyle Privette (Author), K. Marie Douglass (Author), Karl Peltzer (Author), Gladys Matseke (Author), Audrey Mathebula (Author), Shandir Ramlagan (Author), Sibusiso Sifunda (Author), Guillermo "Willy" Prado (Author), Viviana Horigian (Author), Stephen M. Weiss (Author), Deborah L. Jones (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Taylor & Francis Group, 2017-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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The Joint United Nations Programme on HIV and AIDS proposed to reduce the vertical transmission of HIV from ∼72,200 to ∼8300 newly infected children by 2015 in South Africa (SA). However, cultural, infrastructural, and socio-economic barriers hinder the implementation of the prevention of mother-to-...