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Hiv Survey Journal

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1. What database did you use to find the article?
Google search engine
2. How do you know it is peer-reviewed?
Ulrichs Global Serials Directory
3. Who did the research and who wrote this research report?
Researchers: Michele A. Sinunu , Erik J. Schouten, Nellie Wadonda-Kabondo, Enock Kajawo, Michael Eliya, Kundai Moyo, Scott E. Kellerman.
Writers: : Michele A. Sinunu , Erik J. Schouten, Scott E. Kellerman, Nellie Wadonda-Kabondo, Enock Kajawo, Michael Eliya, Kundai Moyo, Frank Chimbwandir, Lee Strunin
4. In what year was this research published?
2011
5. In what journal was the research report published?
PLOS
6. What reasons do the authors give for conducting this research study?
The prevention of transmission of HIV programs of mother to child can reduce …show more content…

What variables are being studied? Babies transmitted congenital infections.
10. What procedure did the authors use in this study to collect data?
They tested dried blood spot samples from infants 3 months of age and older presenting for their first immunization visit for maternal HIV antibodies and subsequently for HIV.
11. What kind of data was presented in the results section? Were there averages (means), correlations, or statistical tests?
15.1% of mothers were HIV-infected and had passed HIV antibodies to their infant.
12. What did the author find – what was concluded from the data analyses? Was the hypothesis supported?
They asked mothers whether they received ARVs during labor, and one-third reported receiving none. Also the number of infants exposed to HIV was 15.1% and appeared to be bit higher than the HIV rate for women aged 15–49 being 12.9%.
13. What are some of the limitations to the study that the authors noted?
If any it would have been the full participation of the caregivers of the children in its entirety and the lack of refusal rates. Also including mothers unaware or unwilling to say that they are HIV positive in the

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