Reducing Mother-to-Infant Transmission of HIV — The Door Remains Open
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The prospective, observational study by Landesman et al. of obstetrical factors associated with mother-to-infant transmission that appears in this issue of the Journal 2 has major implications for the care of pregnant women with HIV and the choices they face.
Abstract
As of the end of 1995, over 90 percent of the reported cases of AIDS in children were acquired through mother-to-infant transmission of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).1 Nearly all HIV infections in children are now thought to be acquired in this manner. The prospective, observational study by Landesman et al. of obstetrical factors associated with mother-to-infant transmission that appears in this issue of the Journal 2 has major implications for the care of pregnant women with HIV and the choices they face.In late 1994, a highly publicized report in the Journal 3 from AIDS Clinical Trials Group Protocol 076 showed . . .