Peripartum infections and associated maternal mortality in rural Malawi
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Thyolo District Health Office, Ministry of Health, Thyolo, Malawi; Medecins Sans Frontieres Operational Center Brussels, Brussels, Belgium; The Department of Medical Humanities, EMGO Institute for Health and Care Research, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; The Department of Obstetrics, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands; Center for Infectious Disease Epidemiology and Research, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South AfricaIssue Date
2011-08
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Obstetrics and GynecologyAbstract
To assess associations between maternal mortality and severe morbidity and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection, uptake of antiretroviral therapy, obstetric infections, and nonobstetric infections in a rural Malawian district, where the estimated HIV prevalence is 21%.Publisher
Lippincott Williams & WilkinsPubMed ID
21775841Additional Links
http://journals.lww.com/greenjournal/Abstract/2011/08000/Peripartum_Infections_and_Associated_Maternal.10.aspxType
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1873-233Xae974a485f413a2113503eed53cd6c53
10.1097/AOG.0b013e3182254d03
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