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Guidelines to support HIV-affected individuals and couples to achieve pregnancy safely: Update 2018
Submitted: 17 September 2018 | Published: 18 October 2018
About the author(s)
Natasha E.C.G. Davies, Wits Reproductive Health and HIV Institute, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, South AfricaGail Ashford, Wits Donald Gordon Medical Centre, South Africa
Linda-Gail Bekker, The Desmond Tutu HIV Centre, Institute of Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine, University of Cape Town, South Africa; and, Department of Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, South Africa
Nomathemba Chandiwana, Wits Reproductive Health and HIV Institute, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa
Diane Cooper, School of Public Health, University of Western Cape, South Africa
Silker J. Dyer, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Groote Schuur Hospital, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, South Africa
Lauren Jankelowitz, Southern African HIV Clinicians’ Society, South Africa
Otty Mhlongo, KwaZulu-Natal Department of Health, South Africa
Coceka N. Mnyani, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, School of Clinical Medicine, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa
Muhangwi B. Mulaudzi, Southern African HIV Clinicians’ Society, South Africa
Michelle Moorhouse, Wits Reproductive Health and HIV Institute, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa
Landon Myer, Division of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health and Family Medicine, University of Cape Town, South Africa
Malika Patel, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Groote Schuur Hospital, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town, South Africa
Melanie Pleaner, Wits Reproductive Health and HIV Institute, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa
Tatiana Ramos, Southern African HIV Clinicians’ Society, South Africa
Helen Rees, Wits Reproductive Health and HIV Institute, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa
Sheree Schwartz, Wits Reproductive Health and HIV Institute, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa; and, Department of Epidemiology, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health, United States
Jenni Smit, Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, School of Clinical Medicine, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa
Doreen S. van Zyl, Private Practitioner, South Africa
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