Intergenerational Transmission of Attachment: Japanese Mother-Child Dyads

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, ...

Intergenerational Transmission of Mother-to-Child Health: Evidence from Cebu, the Philippines

Using rich longitudinal data from the Philippines, we causally estimate the transmission of maternal health to child health, from birth through preadolescence. To obtain exogenous variation in maternal health we exploit an array of data on climate (temperature, precipitation and cyclone) shocks surrounding the time of the mother’s birth and during her early childhood. This large set of instrume...

[Mother-to-child transmission of HIV].

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...

Prevention of mother-to-child transmission.

235 March 2014, Vol. 104, No. 3 (Suppl 1) Eliminating mother-to-child transmission (MTCT) of HIV requires monitoring of the prevention of mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT) programme to identify programme gaps for intervention. Early infant diagnosis (EID) is critical for identifying HIVinfected infants to enable early initiation of antiretroviral therapy (ART), which has been shown to reduce...

Mother-to-child transmission of HIV