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Implementing anti-retroviral triple therapy to prevent HIV mother-to-child transmission: a public health approach in resource-limited settings

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  1. LUMSA University, Rome, Italy

    Cristina M. Marazzi

  2. Community of Sant’Egidio—DREAM programme, Rome, Italy

    Paola Germano

  3. University of Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy

    Giuseppe Liotta, Carlo F. Perno, Sandro Mancinelli, Annamaria Doro Altan & Leonardo Palombi

  4. National Institute of Health, Rome, Italy

    Giovanni Guidotti

  5. DREAM Programme, Maputo, Mozambique

    Sandra Loureiro & Maria C. Valls Blazquez

  6. Catholic University of Beira, Beira, Mozambique

    Aurelio da Cruz Gomes

  7. National Institute of Infectious Disease “L. Spallanzani”, Rome, Italy

    Pasquale Narciso

  8. Department of Pediatrics, David Geffen UCLA School of Medicine, MDCC 22-442 10833 LeConte, Los Angeles, CA, USA

    Karin Nielsen-Saines

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All authors are also affiliated with the DREAM Programme (Drug Resources Enhancement against AIDS and Malnutrition).

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Marazzi, C.M., Germano, P., Liotta, G. et al. Implementing anti-retroviral triple therapy to prevent HIV mother-to-child transmission: a public health approach in resource-limited settings. Eur J Pediatr 166, 1305–1307 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00431-006-0405-8

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