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Article History

Received: 5 June 2018

Accepted: 26 November 2018

First Online: 22 December 2018

Author’s information

: JNT is an Associate Professor of Molecular Biology and Chair of Department of Biochemistry, and Coordinator of Laboratories in CIRCB who contributed in setting up the Early Infant Diagnosis HIV Programme in Cameroon in 2007; RM (Professor) is a gynaecologist and Director of the Division of Family Health in the Ministry of Public Health; WT (Senior Lecturer) is a gynaecologist, and CKK (Senior Lecturer) is a paediatrician; AJN, KN, KA and SM are clinicians; AN, DT and SS are biologists and ID is a biostatistician.

: Approval to carry out this work was given by the Chantal Biya International Reference Centre (CIRCB) Institutional Review Board (IRB), Yaounde, Cameroon. A written informed consent was given by each woman before participation. The laboratory results were given to the women and those who were positive for any of the virus, were referred to care services.

: Not applicable.

: The authors declare that they have no competing interests.

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