Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về hóa học được đăng trên tạp chí sinh học quốc tế đề tài : Outcome of Different Nevirapine Administration Strategies in Preventin g Mother-to-Child Transmission (PMTCT) Programs in Tanzania and Uganda | Journal of the International AIDS Society BioMed Central Research article Outcome of Different Nevirapine Administration Strategies in Preventin g Mother-to-Child Transmission PMTCT Programs in Tanzania and Uganda Heiko Karcher1 Andrea Kunz1 Gabriele Poggensee3 Paulina Mbezi4 Kizito Mugenyi5 and Gundel Harms 6 Address Research associate GTZ PMTCT Project Institute of Tropical Medicine and International Health Charité-University Medicine Berlin Germany 3Associate Professor of Epidemiology Department of Infectious Disease Epidemiology Robert Koch-Institute Berlin Germany 4project coordinator MoH GTZ PMTCT Programme Mbeya Region Mbeya Tanzania 5project coordinator MoH GTZ PMTCT Programme Western Uganda Fort Portal Uganda and 6Professor of Tropical Medicine international coordinator GTZ PMTCT Project Institute of Tropical Medicine and International Health Charité-University Medicine Berlin Germany Email Gundel Harms - Corresponding author Published 12 April 2006 Journal of the International AIDS Society 2006 8 12 This article is available from http content 8 2 12 Open Access Abstract Objective Prevention-of-mother-to-child transmission PMTCT interventions based on singledose nevirapine NVP are widely implemented in Africa but strategies differ regarding how and when to administer the drug to women and infants. The aim of this study was to analyze the outcome of different strategies with regard to NVP intake in pregnant women and their infants in Tanzania and Uganda. Methods In an observational study carried out between March 2002 and December 2004 we compared a directly observed NVP administration strategy in Tanzania supervised NVP intake for women and infants at a health unit and a semi-observed administration strategy self-administered NVP for women at home and supervised intake for infants at a health unit in Uganda. Results The proportions of HIV-positive women accepting receipt of NVP from the health units were similar in
