Focus on women: linking HIV care and treatment with reproductive health services in the MTCT-Plus Initiative.

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Published in Reprod Health Matters on May 01, 2005

Authors

Landon Myer1, Miriam Rabkin, Elaine J Abrams, Allan Rosenfield, Wafaa M El-Sadr, Columbia University MTCT-Plus Initiative

Author Affiliations

1: Columbia University, Mailman School of Public Health, New York, NY, USA. wme1@columbia.edu

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