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The Tingathe programme: a pilot intervention using community health workers to create a continuum of care in the prevention of mother to child transmission of HIV (PMTCT) cascade of services in Malawi

INTRODUCTION: Loss to follow-up is a major challenge in the prevention of mother to child transmission of HIV (PMTCT) programme in Malawi with reported loss to follow-up of greater than 70%. Tingathe-PMTCT is a pilot intervention that utilizes dedicated community health workers (CHWs) to create a co...

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Autores principales: Kim, Maria H, Ahmed, Saeed, Buck, W Chris, Preidis, Geoffrey A, Hosseinipour, Mina C, Bhalakia, Avni, Nanthuru, Debora, Kazembe, Peter N, Chimbwandira, Frank, Giordano, Thomas P, Chiao, Elizabeth Y, Schutze, Gordon E, Kline, Mark W
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: International AIDS Society 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3499848/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22789644
http://dx.doi.org/10.7448/IAS.15.4.17389