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ArticleInternational journal of MCH and AIDS2020

Perinatal HIV Transmission Prevention: Challenges among Women Living with HIV in sub-Saharan Africa.

Elizabeth Armstrong-Mensah, Krystal Ruiz, Aminata Fofana, Victoria Hawley

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Article in International journal of MCH and AIDS, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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5 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Elizabeth Armstrong-MensahGeorgia State University, School of Public Health, Atlanta, Georgia 30303.
Krystal RuizGeorgia State University, School of Public Health, Atlanta, Georgia 30303.
Aminata FofanaGeorgia State University, School of Public Health, Atlanta, Georgia 30303.
Victoria HawleyGeorgia State University, School of Public Health, Atlanta, Georgia 30303.

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

About 86 percent of the estimated 160,000 children newly-infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) live in sub-Saharan Africa. Despite global efforts to reduce perinatal HIV transmission, this phenomenon continues to be a public health problem in sub-Saharan Africa. This paper discusses challenges associated with perinatal HIV transmission prevention in sub-Saharan Africa and offers strategies for the way forward. These strategies include safe sex education and behavioral change, increased access to integrated antenatal care, training of unskilled traditional birth attendants into formal delivery systems, access to antiretroviral therapy, and investing in virologic testing.

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Antiretroviral TherapyHIVHIV PreventionMother to Child HIV TransmissionPerinatalSub-Saharan Africa

Identifiers

PMID32832201
PMCPMC7433295

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