Epidemiology of HIV Vertical Transmission

HIV / AIDS : Vertical Transmission Enrique

Epidemiology of Perinatal HIV Transmission

200 According to UNAIDS, a joint United Nations program on HIV/AIDS, there are approximately 19.2 million women living with HIV or AIDS, accounting for nearly half of all infections worldwide. Similarly, an estimated 3.2 million children under the age of 15 are living with HIV or AIDS, the overwhelming majority of whom acquired HIV through perinatal transmission and live in Sub-Saharan Africa. ...

Vertical transmission of HIV: a prospective study.

Forty nine infants of HIV seropositive women were followed up for a median of 24 months, together with 24 controls. The infection status of 11 index children under 18 months of age was indeterminate; 34 were presumed uninfected while four showed clinical and laboratory evidence of HIV disease. Based on current definitions of HIV infection and excluding children under 18 months old as well as th...

Subregional Workshop: Prevention of the Vertical Transmission of HIV

The organization and the development of this meeting had the support from International Agencies and Organizations, such as UNAIDS, PAHO/WHO, UNICEF. In addition, there was active participation of the presidents of the UNAIDS Theme Groups from the participating countries, and of the Regional Initiative on AIDS for Latin America and the Caribbean (SIDALAC), a World Bank and UNAIDS initiative in ...

Epidemiological evolution of vertical HIV transmission in Rondônia, Brazil.

ith the growing number of cases of human immunodefiiency virus (HIV) infection, which is mainly noticed in women f reproductive age, the number of cases of HIV infected neworns has also increased. The main mode of transmission in uch cases is vertical, that is, from mother to child during regnancy, childbirth, or breastfeeding. It has been reported hat 64% of the vertical transmission occurs du...