Maternal and Child Health: A Priority in Africa

AIDS in Africa: a public health priority.

AIDS and HIV infection are now endemic in many parts of Africa. The infection is mainly transmitted by heterosexual activity, as illustrated by a 1:1 female to male case ratio and high HIV seroprevalence rates in people at risk for sexually transmitted diseases and female prostitutes. Transmission by blood transfusions, contaminated injections and from mother to child is occurring more frequent...

Improving Men’s Participation in Preventing Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV as a Maternal, Neonatal, and Child Health Priority in South Africa

1 Sonke Gender Justice, Cape Town, South Africa, 2 School of Public Health & Family Medicine, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa, 3 School of Population and Public Health, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, 4 Vaccine Evaluation Centre, Department of Pediatrics, British Columbia Children’s Hospital, Vancouver, Canada, 5 Médecins Sans Frontières, Khayelitsha, Cape To...

Correction: Improving Men’s Participation in Preventing Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV as a Maternal, Neonatal, and Child Health Priority in South Africa

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Maternal and Child Health

Maternal and child health.

The Author 2006. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the European Public Health Association. All rights reserved. doi:10.1093/eurpub/cki170 Advance Access publication February 9, 2006 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ....