Variation of CD4 count and percentage among women receiving antiretroviral prophylaxis for the prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV: Implication for HAART initiation in resource-limited settings
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Source of financial support : The primary sponsor was the Agence Nationale de Recherches sur le Sida et les hépatites virales (ANRS), France. Didier K. Ekouevi was a fellow of the French Charity SIDACTION and is now a fellow of the European & ABSTRACT Background: We studied whether the variation of T-lymphocyte CD4+ (CD4)
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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, ...
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