Open AccessTiming of Maternal HIV Testing and Uptake of Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission Interventions Among Women and Their Infected Infants in Johannesburg, South Africa
Author(s) -
Karl-Günter Technau,
Emma Kalk,
Ashraf Coovadia,
Vivian Black,
Sam Pickerill,
Claude A. Mellins,
Elaine J. Abrams,
Renate Strehlau,
Louise Kuhn
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
journal of acquired immune deficiency syndromes
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.162
H-Index - 157
eISSN - 1944-7884
pISSN - 1525-4135
DOI - 10.1097/qai.0000000000000068
Subject(s) - psychological intervention , human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) , transmission (telecommunications) , medicine , developing country , environmental health , pediatrics , virology , psychiatry , biology , electrical engineering , engineering , ecology
By 2011, South African prevention of mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT) of HIV programs had reduced perinatal HIV transmission at 6 weeks of age to 2.7%. We investigated the profile of newly diagnosed vertically infected children and their mothers to identify shortfalls in the PMTCT program.