Journal article
Effect of timing of mother's death on child survival in a rural HIV hyper-endemic South African population
- Abstract:
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Background
Maternal mortality remains a tragedy and a key determinant for child survival. There is increasing evidence that the hazard ratio of demising for young children escalates after the death of their mothers, but few studies has been done in rural areas were HIV/AIDS is more prevalent. The aim of this study is to investigate the survival of children who lost their mothers soon or after their births in a rural setup with high HIV prevalence in South Africa.
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- Publication status:
- Published
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Wellcome Trust
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Bibliographic Details
- Publisher:
- BioMed Central Publisher's website
- Journal:
- BMC Public Health Journal website
- Volume:
- 18
- Issue:
- 1
- Article number:
- 1237
- Publication date:
- 2018-11-06
- Acceptance date:
- 2018-10-26
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1471-2458
- ISSN:
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1471-2458
- Pmid:
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30400789
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- Language:
- English
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- Pubs id:
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1160739
- Local pid:
- pubs:1160739
- Deposit date:
- 2021-02-10
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- Copyright holder:
- Tlou et al.
- Copyright date:
- 2018
- Rights statement:
- ©2018 The Authors. Open Access This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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- CC Attribution (CC BY)
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