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Evaluation of a community health worker intervention and the World Health Organization’s Option B versus Option A to improve antenatal care and PMTCT outcomes in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania: study protocol for a cluster-randomized controlled health systems implementation trial

BACKGROUND: Mother-to-child transmission of HIV remains an important public health problem in sub-Saharan Africa. As HIV testing and linkage to PMTCT occurs in antenatal care (ANC), major challenges for any PMTCT option in developing countries, including Tanzania, are delays in the first ANC visit a...

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Autores principales: Sando, David, Geldsetzer, Pascal, Magesa, Lucy, Lema, Irene Andrew, Machumi, Lameck, Mwanyika-Sando, Mary, Li, Nan, Spiegelman, Donna, Mungure, Ester, Siril, Hellen, Mujinja, Phares, Naburi, Helga, Chalamilla, Guerino, Kilewo, Charles, Ekström, Anna Mia, Fawzi, Wafaie W, Bärnighausen, Till W
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4247663/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25224756
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1745-6215-15-359