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- Title
Perinatally Acquired AIDS Declines.
- Authors
Hollander, Dore
- Abstract
This article focuses on the decline of Perinatally Acquired AIDS. Between 1992 and 1995, the number of U.S. children with AIDS who had acquired human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) perinatally from their infected mother dropped by 27 percent; the decline was greater among White children (39 percent) than among Blacks or Hispanics (25-26 percent). According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the decline suggests that, consistent with Public Health Service recommendations, growing proportions of pregnant women are undergoing voluntary HIV counseling and testing and, if they are infected with the virus, are using zidovudine to avoid transmitting it to their newborns. Other factors may also have played a role, including HIV-infected women's increased use of zidovudine before pregnancy. Thus, CDC has pointed out that since no treatment is universally effective in preventing perinatal transmission, primary prevention of HIV infection among children will require preventing new HIV infections among women.
- Subjects
AZIDOTHYMIDINE; AIDS prevention; HIV; PUBLIC health; PREGNANT women; NEWBORN infants
- Publication
Family Planning Perspectives, 1997, Vol 29, Issue 2, p50
- ISSN
0014-7354
- Publication type
Article