HIV and Infant Feeding : Operational Challenges of Achieving Safe Infant Feeding Practices

HIV and Infant Feeding : Operational Challenges of Achieving Safe Infant Feeding Practices

This thesis assesses the uptake of the national Prevention of Mother to Child Transmission of HIV (PMTCT) programme in South Africa, and the challenges of achieving safe infant feeding practices in the context of HIV. The research studies contained in this thesis utilised a variety of quantitative a...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Doherty, Tanya
Format:	Doctoral Thesis
Language:	English
Published:	Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för kvinnors och barns hälsa 2006
Subjects:	International health HIV/AIDS Prevention of Mother to Child Transmission of HIV infant feeding child health qualitative research cohort study programme evaluation nutrition Internationell hälsa
Online Access:	http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-7291 http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:isbn:91-554-6720-2

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