PMID- 23209993
OWN - NLM
STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE
DCOM- 20121205
LR  - 20231104
IS  - 2141-9248 (Print)
IS  - 2277-9205 (Electronic)
IS  - 2141-9248 (Linking)
VI  - 2
IP  - 1
DP  - 2012 Jan
TI  - Prevention of mother to child transmission of human immunodeficiency virus: the 
      nigerian perspective.
PG  - 56-65
LID - 10.4103/2141-9248.96940 [doi]
AB  - Despite the proven effectiveness of the prevention of mother to child 
      transmission (PMTCT) of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) program, Nigeria 
      currently has the highest burden of vertical transmission of HIV in the world due 
      to poor coverage of the PMTCT program partly as a result of poor knowledge of 
      PMTCT interventions amongst healthcare providers in the country. This paper aims 
      at making information on PMTCT interventions more readily available to healthcare 
      providers in developing countries. The internet was searched using Google and 
      Google scholar. In addition, relevant electronic journals from the Universities 
      library including PubMed and Scirus, Medline, Cochrane library, and World Health 
      Organization (WHO)'s Hinari were used. There was paucity of published work on 
      PMCT from Nigeria. Most of the information concerning PMCT in Nigeria was 
      obtained from technical reports from the Federal Ministry of Health and WHO. It 
      is expected that this article will help in improving healthcare providers' 
      knowledge of PMTCT interventions and thus help in the urgently needed rapid 
      scale-up of PMTCT services in Nigeria.
FAU - Nkwo, Po
AU  - Nkwo P
AD  - Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital, 
      Enugu, Nigeria.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PL  - India
TA  - Ann Med Health Sci Res
JT  - Annals of medical and health sciences research
JID - 101585351
PMC - PMC3507117
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - Healthcare providers
OT  - PMTCT
OT  - Rapid scale-up
COIS- Conflict of Interest: None declared.
EDAT- 2012/12/05 06:00
MHDA- 2012/12/05 06:01
PMCR- 2012/01/01
CRDT- 2012/12/05 06:00
PHST- 2012/12/05 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2012/12/05 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2012/12/05 06:01 [medline]
PHST- 2012/01/01 00:00 [pmc-release]
AID - AMHSR-2-56 [pii]
AID - 10.4103/2141-9248.96940 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Ann Med Health Sci Res. 2012 Jan;2(1):56-65. doi: 10.4103/2141-9248.96940.