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Urgent appeal to implement pre-exposure prophylaxis for pregnant and breastfeeding women in South Africa

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D L Joseph Davey, N Davies, Y Raphael, Y Pillay, L-G Bekker

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D L Joseph Davey, Department of Epidemiology, Fielding School of Public Health, University of California, Los Angeles, California, USA; Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health and Family Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, South Africa

N Davies, Anova Health, Johannesburg, South Africa

Y Raphael, Advocacy for Prevention of HIV and AIDS (APHA), Johannesburg, South Africa

Y Pillay, Center for Global Health Innovation, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, USA

L-G Bekker, Desmond Tutu HIV Centre, University of Cape Town, South Africa

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Keywords

PrEP; Pre-exposure prophylaxis; Pregnancy; South Africa; Policy; PMTCT

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South African Medical Journal 2021;111(11):1038-1039.

Article History

Date submitted: 2021-10-06
Date published: 2021-10-06

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