Paediatric non-progression following grandmother-to-child HIV transmission

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, ...

Sequence evolution of HIV-1 following mother-to-child transmission.

The genetic heterogeneity of HIV-1 poses a major obstacle to vaccine development. Although most horizontally acquired HIV-1 infections are initiated by a single homogeneous virus, marked genetic diversification and evolution occur following transmission. The relative contribution of the antiviral immune response to intrahost viral evolution remains controversial, in part because the sequence of...

Prevention of mother-to-child HIV transmission and management of paediatric HIV infection in Jamaica.

Paediatric HIV and elimination of mother-to-child transmission of HIV in the ASEAN region: a call to action

Recent achievements in scaling up paediatric antiretroviral therapy (ART) have changed the life of children living with HIV, who now stay healthy and live longer lives. However, as it becomes more of a chronic infection, a range of new problems have begun to arise. These include the disclosure of HIV serostatus to children, adherence to ART, long-term toxicities of antiretroviral drugs and thei...

Mother-to-child transmission of HIV