Tracing defaulters in HIV prevention of mother-to-child transmission programmes through community health workers: results from a rural setting in Zimbabwe.
Authors
Vogt, FlorianFerreyra, Cecilia
Bernasconi, Andrea
Ncube, Lewis
Taziwa, Fabian
Marange, Winnie
Wachi, David
Becher, Heiko
Issue Date
2015-10
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High retention in care is paramount to reduce vertical human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infections in prevention of mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT) programmes but remains low in many sub-Saharan African countries. We aimed to assess the effects of community health worker-based defaulter tracing (CHW-DT) on retention in care and mother-to-child HIV transmission, an innovative approach that has not been evaluated to date.Publisher
International AIDS SocietyPubMed ID
26462714Language
enISSN
1758-2652Collections
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