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Is There a Higher Risk of Mother-to-child Transmission of HIV Among Pregnant Women With Perinatal HIV Infection?

Year: 2018

Type: article

Abstract: Cases of mother-to-child-transmission in the Surveillance Monitoring of ART Toxicities Study of Pediatric HIV/AIDS Cohort Study were identified from 2007 to 2015. Among 2123 births, 9 infants were HIV infected, giving a mother-to-child-transmission rate of 0.5% (95% confidence interval: 0.3%-1.0%). Mothers with perinatal HIV infections had a higher mother-to-child-transmission rate (1.1%; 95% confidence interval: 0.3%-4.3%) than mothers without perinatal HIV infections (0.4%; 95% confidence interval: 0.2%-1.0%), associated with a greater likelihood of detectable viral load at delivery.

Source: The Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal

DOI: 10.1097/inf.0000000000002084

Authors: Christopher J. Goodenough, Kunjal Patel, Russell B. Van Dyke

Institutions: The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Tulane University

Language: English

Topic: HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions

Subfield: Infectious Diseases

Field: Medicine

Domain: Health Sciences

SDG: Good health and well-being

Open Access status: green

Funder: Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development