Wanda Figueroa
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Wanda Figueroa is an academic researcher. The author has contributed to research in topics: Prenatal care & Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS). The author has an hindex of 1, co-authored 1 publications.
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Missed Opportunities for Perinatal HIV Prevention Among HIV-Exposed Infants Born 1996–2000, Pediatric Spectrum of HIV Disease Cohort
Vicki Peters,Kai Lih Liu,Kenneth L. Dominguez,Toni Frederick,Sharon K. Melville,Ho Wen Hsu,Idith Ortiz,Tamara A. Rakusan,Balwant Gill,Pauline A. Thomas,Glenn W. Fowler,Alan Greenberg,Beverly Bohannon,Thom Sukalac,Joyce Cohen,Catherine Reddington,Barbara W. Stechenberg,Eileen Theroux,Maripat Toye,Stephen I. Pelton,Anne Marie Regan,Sam Theodore,Kenneth McIntosh,Catherine Kneut,Katherine Luzuriaga,Dorothy I. Smith,Donna Picard,H. Cody Meissner,Gerard Coste,Margaret Lynch,Mark S. Pasternack,Chere Mapson,Annette Brooks,Myrna Beckles,Patricia Diggs,Stephanie Manning,Carol McFarlane,Karla McFarlane,Arye Rubinstein,Saroj Bakshi,Edward Handelsman,Elaine J. Abrams,Cathy Painter,Andrew Wiznia,Ninad Desal,Nathan Litman,Joseph J. Stavola,Jacob Abadi,Hans M. L. Spiegel,Andrew Bonwit,Vonterris Hagan-Temple,Waldo Perez,Sohail Rana,Renee R. Jenkins,Davene McCarthy-White,Linda Hart,Juan Carlos Orengo,Aida Melendez,Myribel Santiago-Torres,Evelyn Rivera,Ruth Santos,Emily Maldonado,Eleanor Jimenez,Luis A. Martinez,Irma Febo,Lissette Lugo,Wanda Figueroa,Odette Garcia,Jose Vazquez Julia,Rosa Delgado,Ortando Quincoce,Judith Gautier,Marcia Wolverton,Richard Yeager,Mary James,Janet Squires,Janeen Graper,Terence I. Doran,Rachel Davis,Mary Jane Varela,Gilberto Handel,Tony Millon,Marilyn Doyle,Kathleen Paul,Mary E. Paul,Amy D. Leonard,Janak A. Patel,Patti Forey,Saramistha Hauger,Laurene Mascola,Silvia Shin,Janielle Jackson-Alvarez,Priya Mukhopadhyay,Yvonne J. Bryson,Joseph A. Church,Audra Deveikis,Margaret A. Keller,Deborah Lehman,Andrea Kovacs +98 more
TL;DR: Missed opportunities for perinatal HIV prevention contributed to more than half of the cases of HIV-infected infants, and the combination of lack of maternal HIV testing before delivery and lack of prenatal antiretroviral therapies were significantly associated with per inatal HIV transmission.
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