Risks associated with mother-to-child transmission of hiv infection

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, ...

Prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV infection.

Worldwide, >1000 children are newly infected with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) each day; the majority of these children are in sub-Saharan Africa. The primary mode of HIV acquisition is through mother-to-child transmission (MTCT) during pregnancy, childbirth, or breastfeeding. In well-resourced health care systems, like those in the United States, universal HIV testing for pregnant women,...

[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...

Mother-to-child transmission of HIV

Mother-to-child transmission of HIV-1.

After reviewing the evidence on the relation of vertical transmission of HIV to stage of infection in the mother, I developed a stochastic model of transmission in which the probability of transmission per week is proportional to the virus load in the mother. The virus load in different stages of the infection is measured by viral RNA levels or tissue culture infectious virus levels in plasma. ...