Implementing a rural programme of prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV in Zimbabwe: first 18 months of experience.

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Published in Trop Med Int Health on July 01, 2004

Authors

Freddy Perez1, Tarisai Mukotekwa, Anna Miller, Joanna Orne-Gliemann, Monica Glenshaw, Inam Chitsike, François Dabis

Author Affiliations

1: Institut de Santé Publique, d'Epidemiologie et de Développement (ISPED), Université Victor Segalen, Bordeaux, France. freddy.perez@isped.u-bordeaux2.fr

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