Mother-to-child transmission of HIV infection and its prevention

C Thorne, ML Newell - Current HIV research, 2003 - ingentaconnect.com
child-years of breastfeeding follow-up, where late postnatal transmission was defined as HIV
infection … 672 breastfed infants (HIV negative at birth) born to HIV infected mothers had a 10…

Interventions for reducing the risk of mother‐to‐child transmission of HIV infection

…, Cochrane HIV/AIDS Group - Cochrane Database of …, 1996 - cochranelibrary.com
… The objective of this review was to assess what interventions may be effective in decreasing
the risk of mother‐to‐child transmission of HIV infection as well as their effect on neonatal …

Risk factors for mother-to-child transmission of HIV-1

EC Study - The Lancet, 1992 - Elsevier
… The balance of evidence suggests that mothers with established infection can transmit
HIV infection through breastmilk, although the relative importance of this route remains to be …

… prevention of mother‐to‐child HIV transmission (PMTCT) programmes with other health services for preventing HIV infection and improving HIV outcomes in …

LT Car, MH van‐Velthoven… - Cochrane Database …, 2011 - cochranelibrary.com
children are infected with HIV through mother‐to‐child transmission (MTCT), which is
responsible for more than 90% of HIV infections in children… of mother‐to‐child HIV transmission (…

Factors associated with HIV infection among children born to mothers on the prevention of mother to child transmission programme at Chitungwiza Hospital …

S Ngwende, NT Gombe, S Midzi, M Tshimanga… - BMC public health, 2013 - Springer
… of new HIV infections in children and keeping the mothers alive [9]… HIV infected children is
to prevent HIV infection in parents-to-be and to prevent unplanned pregnancies in HIV-infected

Relation of the course of HIV infection in children to the severity of the disease in their mothers at delivery

…, French Pediatric HIV Infection Study … - … England Journal of …, 1994 - Mass Medical Soc
… We studied the clinical and biologic characteristics of the mothers of infants infected with
HIV type 1 (HIV-1) in the French Prospective Multicenter Cohort. Infection in the children was …

Mortality in HIV-infected and uninfected children of HIV-infected and uninfected mothers in rural Uganda

H Brahmbhatt, G Kigozi… - JAIDS Journal of …, 2006 - journals.lww.com
children born to HIV + mothers (165.5 per 1000 children), and … children in this population. In
addition, the death rate among … children of HIV + mothers was higher than among children of …

Incident HIV during pregnancy and postpartum and risk of mother-to-child HIV transmission: a systematic review and meta-analysis

AL Drake, A Wagner, B Richardson… - PLoS …, 2014 - journals.plos.org
… Most HIV infections among children are the result of mother-to-… move towards eliminating
new HIV infections among children by 2015 and towards keeping their mothers alive. To ensure …

Prevention of mother-to-child HIV transmission in resource-poor countries: translating research into policy and practice

KM De Cock, MG Fowler, E Mercier, I De Vincenzi… - Jama, 2000 - jamanetwork.com
… This article reviews current knowledge of mother-to-child HIV … of implementing perinatal
HIV prevention interventions in … most pediatric HIV infections are acquired from the mothers, …

Antiretrovirals for reducing the risk of mother‐to‐child transmission of HIV infection

N Siegfried, L van der Merwe… - … of systematic reviews, 2011 - cochranelibrary.com
… dose of NVP given to mothers only resulted in HIV infection rates that were not significantly
different at birth and 6 months. However the reduction in risk of HIV infection or death at 6 …