Effectiveness of the first district-wide programme for the prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV in South Africa

• Autors principals: David Coetzee (Autor), Katherine Hilderbrand (Autor), Andrew Boulle (Autor), Beverley Draper (Autor), Fareed Abdullah (Autor), Eric Goemaere (Autor)
• Format: Llibre
• Publicat: The World Health Organization, 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z.
• Matèries: article
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OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study was to estimate the field efficacy of the first routine programme for the prevention of mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT) of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) initiated in South Africa, in the subdistrict of Khayelitsha. METHODS: A consecutive sample of 658 mothe...