HIV testing of pregnant women and newborns.

HIV Testing: Pregnant Women and Newborns

Why Mandatory HIV Testing of Pregnant Women and Newborns Must Fail: A Legal, Historical, and Public Policy Analysis Special Issue: Mandatory HIV Testing of Newborns and Their Mothers

Mandatory testing of pregnant women and newborns: HIV, drug use, and welfare policy.

An emerging strand of thought portrays pregnant women with drug addiction and HIV infection as having a willful hostility towards their fetus. As a result, pregnant mothers with HIV or addictions are confronted with decreased funding for services and increased sanctions for positive toxicology tests. The rhetoric of blame towards “deviant” mothers has escalated to embrace poor mothers in genera...

Cost-effectiveness of universal compared with voluntary screening for human immunodeficiency virus among pregnant women in Chicago.

OBJECTIVES To determine and compare the cost-effectiveness of implementing 3 screening strategies to detect human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection among pregnant women in Chicago, Illinois: no screening, voluntary screening, and universal screening. METHODS A decision-analysis model was developed, using standard cost-effectiveness analysis from a societal perspective. Reference case est...

Developing quality indicators for the care of HIV-infected pregnant women in the Dutch Caribbean

BACKGROUND Effective interventions to prevent mother-to-child HIV transmission (PMTCT) exist and when properly applied reduce the risk of vertical HIV transmission. As part of optimizing PMTCT in the Dutch Caribbean we developed a set of valid and applicable indicators in order to assess the quality of care in HIV-infected (pregnant) women and their newborns. METHODS A multidisciplinary exper...