Elimination of Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV — Thailand
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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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BACKGROUND Modern treatment of HIV-positive women has reduced the rate of transmission of HIV to their children. The relative importance of different interventions is unclear. We have studied mother-to-child transmission from the start of the Norwegian epidemic in 1983 and up to the year 2000. MATERIAL AND METHODS Retrospective study of risk factors in HIV-positive women and children of HIV-p...
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عنوان ژورنال: MMWR. Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report
سال: 2016
ISSN: 0149-2195,1545-861X
DOI: 10.15585/mmwr.mm6522a2