Short communication: CD4 counts of HIV‐infected pregnant women and their infected children – implications for PMTCT and treatment programmes
- 7 December 2007
- journal article
- Published by Wiley in Tropical Medicine & International Health
- Vol. 12 (12) , 1472-1474
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-3156.2007.01954.x
Abstract
A considerable proportion of pregnant women and their infected children are likely to be eligible for anti-retroviral treatment. The antenatal-postnatal divide needs to be bridged with respect to the follow-up of both HIV-infected women and their exposed infants.Keywords
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