Evaluation of plasma viral-load monitoring and the prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV-1 in three health facilities of the Littoral region of Cameroon

• Etienne Verlain Fouedjio Kafack ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Etienne Verlain Fouedjio Kafack, Joseph Fokam, Theophile Njamen Nana

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Faculty of Health Science, University of Buea, Buea, Cameroon

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3469-3605

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• Joseph Fokam ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Etienne Verlain Fouedjio Kafack, Joseph Fokam, Theophile Njamen Nana

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: halle-ekane.edie@ubuea.cm (GEHE); josephfokam@gmail.com (JF)

  Affiliations Faculty of Health Science, University of Buea, Buea, Cameroon, Virology Laboratory, Chantal BIYA International Reference Centre for Research on HIV/AIDS Prevention and Management, Yaounde, Cameroon

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1501-2763

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• Theophile Njamen Nana ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Etienne Verlain Fouedjio Kafack, Joseph Fokam, Theophile Njamen Nana

  Roles Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Faculty of Health Science, University of Buea, Buea, Cameroon

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• Arthur Saniotis ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ AS and GEHE also contributed equally to this work as senior authors.

  Affiliations Bachelor of Doctor Assistance Department, DDT College of Medicine, Gabarone, Botswana, Biological Anthropology and Comparative Anatomy Research Unit, School of Biomedicine, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia

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• Gregory Edie Halle-Ekane

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: halle-ekane.edie@ubuea.cm (GEHE); josephfokam@gmail.com (JF)

  ¶‡ AS and GEHE also contributed equally to this work as senior authors.

  Affiliations Faculty of Health Science, University of Buea, Buea, Cameroon, Douala General Hospital, Douala, Cameroon

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