Prevention of Mother-to-Child HIV Transmission (PMTCT) in the Republic of Congo: Challenges to Implementation
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Laure Stella Ghoma Linguissi1,2, Cyrille Bisseye1,3, Pierre Poulain2, Francine Ntoumi2,4,5 and Jacques Simpore1,6* 1Centre de Recherche Biomoléculaire Pietro Annigoni (CERBA), LABIOGENE, Université de Ouagadougou, 01 BP 364 Ouaga 01, Burkina Faso 2Fondation Congolaise pour la Recherche Médicale (FCRM), Brazzaville, Republic of Congo 3Laboratoire de Biologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire (LABMC), Université des Sciences et Techniques de Masuku (USTM), BP 943 Franceville, Republic of Gabon 4Faculté des Sciences et Techniques, Université Marien Ngouabi, Brazzaville, Republic of Congo 5Institute for Tropical Medicine, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany 6Centre Médical Saint Camille, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
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