Can cash help eliminate mother-to-child HIV transmission?
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Prevention of Mother to Child HIV Transmission
In Iran 8% of HIV- infected cases are women. Since most of them are young and in childbearing ages, in case of becoming pregnant and not receiving preventive measures, they can infect their child. Without Preventive measures transmission rate is 15 to 45 percent. Several factors such as sever stage of HIV and AIDS ,CD4 low count, high viral loud, acute retroviral phase, STDs, vaginal delivery, ...
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عنوان ژورنال: The Lancet HIV
سال: 2016
ISSN: 2352-3018
DOI: 10.1016/s2352-3018(16)00003-5