Antiretroviral drugs in the cupboard are not enough: the impact of health systems' performance on mother-to-child transmission of HIV.

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Published in J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr on February 01, 2011

Authors

Pierre M Barker1, Wendy Mphatswe, Nigel Rollins

Author Affiliations

1: Institute for Healthcare Improvement, Cambridge, MA, USA.

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