Implementation of the dual therapy prevention of mother-to-child transmission protocol
Antiretroviral drugs taken during pregnancy, reduce the rates of mother-to-child transmission from 35 percent to as low as 1 to 2 percent (UNAIDS, 2009). In 2002, the Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission (PMTCT) programme was implemented in South Africa. Studies on the implementation of the PM...
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Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University
2010
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Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10948/1374 |