Interventions for preventing late postnatal mother-to-child transmission of HIV
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Preventing postnatal mother-to-child transmission of HIV: context matters.
Greiner (Reference) raises several points regarding the generalisability of the findings of our study( ). In reply, it is important to note 1 that the total number of events, HIV transmissions or deaths, among the HIV-exposed infants were low and this precluded in-depth analyses of some of the questions that Greiner raises. This limitation was acknowledged in both this and earlier reports of th...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews
سال: 2009
ISSN: 1465-1858
DOI: 10.1002/14651858.cd006734.pub2