HIV therapy in pregnancy 357 10. Pregnancy and HIV Therapy for mothers and prevention for neonates
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Perinatal (vertical) HIV infection has become rare since the introduction of antiretroviral transmission prophylaxis and elective cesarean section. While the vertical HIV transmission rate ranged from 15 to 20 % in the United States and Europe at the beginning of the nineties, it now amounts to only a few percent (Connor 1994, European Collaborative Study 2001, Marcollet 2002, Hollwitz 2004). Postpartum HIV infections are avoidable provided that HIV-infected mothers do not breastfeed.
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تاریخ انتشار 2006