Prenatal HIV Screening in a Tertiary Care Centre
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Prenatal HIV screening in a tertiary care centre.
OBJECTIVE Strategies are available to reduce maternal-fetal transmission of HIV and depend on adequate prenatal screening. At present, a significant proportion of Canadian pregnant women remain unscreened. We reviewed our screening practices before and after the implementation of a departmental policy on universal counselling for HIV screening and the distribution of a patient educational broch...
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عنوان ژورنال: Canadian Journal of Public Health
سال: 2001
ISSN: 0008-4263,1920-7476
DOI: 10.1007/bf03404955