COMMENTARY: Routine Screening for HIV Infection in Booked Antenatal Women: How Justified in Developing Countries?
), AC Ikeme(2),
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Abstract
Infection with the human immune deficiency virus (HIV) has become a pandemic and has posed a great health problem both in developed and developing countries. According to a report published by the United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS and the World Health Organization, at the end of the year 2002, an estimated 36.1 million of the world’s children and adults aged 15-49 years were living with HIV or AIDS.
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Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) and World Health Organization (WHO). AIDS Epidemic Update Geneva: UNAIDS and WHO, December 2000.
The National AIDS and STD Control Programme, Department of Primary Health Care and Disease Control, Federal Ministry of Health, Nigeria, 2000.
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