A risk measurement tool for targeted HIV prevention measures amongst young pregnant and lactating women in South Africa

• Main Authors: Trisha Ramraj (Author), Nada Abdelatif (Author), Witness Chirinda (Author), Fareed Abdullah (Author), Gurpreet Kindra (Author), Ameena Goga (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2022-06-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Abstract Background We aimed to develop and validate a tool to identify which pregnant/lactating young South African women (≤ 24 years) are at risk of HIV infection. Methods Data from three national South African Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission (PMTCT) evaluations were used to internally...