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HIV-1 disease progression in breast-feeding and formula-feeding mothers:
(2007)
Background. There is conflicting evidence regarding the effects of breast‐feeding on maternal mortality from human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV‐1) infection, and little is known about the effects of breast‐feeding ...
HV-1-specific cytotoxic T lymphocytes and breast milk HIV-1 transmission.
(2009)
Breast-feeding by infants exposed to human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) provides an opportunity to assess the role played by repeated HIV-1 exposure in eliciting HIV-1-specific immunity and in defining whether ...
Comparison of techniques for HIV-1 RNA detection and quantitation in cervicovaginal secretions.
(University of Nairobi., 2001-02)
PRINCIPLES:
HIV-1 in female genital secretions has been measured using swabs, Sno Strips (Akorn, Inc., Buffalo Grove, IL), and cervicovaginal lavage (CVL), but little is known regarding the comparability of these collection ...
Postnatal Transmission Of HIV-1 Through Pooled Breast Milk.
(University of Nairobi, 1994-11)
ABSTRACT NOT AVAILABLE
Net survival of perinatally and postnatally HIV-infected children: a pooled analysis of individual data from sub-Saharan Africa.
(University of Nairobi, 2011-04)
BACKGROUND:
Previously, HIV epidemic models have used a double Weibull curve to represent high initial and late mortality of HIV-infected children, without distinguishing timing of infection (peri- or post-natally). ...
Growth monitoring
(University of Nairobi, 1993-12)
ABSTRACT NOT AVAILABLE
Condom Use Among Sexually Active Kenyan Female Adolescents at Risk for HIV-1 Infection
(2008)
Abstract High rates of unintended pregnancy and HIV
infection occur in sub-Saharan Africa yet few Kenyan
studies have defined correlates of condom use in sexually
active female adolescents. Female adolescents ...
Battered baby syndrome at Kenyatta National Hospital
(1990-12)
Thirty children presenting with Battered Baby Syndrome over a five year period were studied retrospectively. The male:female ratio was 1:1.1. The majority (60%) were aged 0-11 months. 14 children (46%) were abandoned while ...
Timing of breast milk HIV-1 transmission: a meta-analysis
(2001-02)
:
To define the frequency and timing of breast milk transmission of HIV-1.
DESIGN:
Meta-analysis of data abstracted from published literature.
SUBJECTS:
Participants in prospective cohort studies of MTCT ...
Breast Milk Transmission Of HIV-1
(University of Nairobi, 1995-12)
PIP:
Breast milk provides infants and children immunologic, nutritional, and child spacing benefits. Yet it also transmits some viruses, for example, HIV-1. The World Health Organization recommends that, in conditions ...