Year: 2010
Type: editorial
Abstract: Despite the growing global access to life-extending antiretroviral drugs for the more than 33 million persons living with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection, approximately 7000 new infections occur daily. This alarming number speaks to the critical need for effective approaches to HIV prevention.1 Early approaches to prevention were limited to the consistent use of barrier methods during sex,2 a reduction in the prevalence of HIV in the blood supply, behavior modification, postexposure prophylaxis, and awareness of HIV-infection status. Antiretroviral drugs that were provided to pregnant women with HIV infection were shown to dramatically reduce the risk of perinatal transmission,3 with . . .
Source: New England Journal of Medicine
DOI: 10.1056/nejme1012929
Author: Nelson L. Michael
Institution: Walter Reed Army Institute of Research
Language: English
Subfield: Infectious Diseases
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W2157402310