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HIV Perinatal Transmission and Reproductive Health

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AIDS and Women’s Reproductive Health

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HIV-1 infection in risk groups such as intravenous drug abusers, their sexual partners, and sexually active women in many developing countries has resulted in an increased number of HIV-infected women of childbearing age. In most parts of the world, where blood bank screening for HIV-1 is now in effect, mother-to-child transmission of the virus will be the major mode of infection to infants. Several prospective studies of infants born to infected mothers have shown a perinatal transmission rate of approximately 25–40% in both developed and developing countries (1–5). The actual mechanisms of mother-infant transmission are not yet known; data is supportive of trans-placental spread (6–8), birth canal transmission at delivery (9), and breast feeding (1, 10).

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  1. Harvard School of Public Health, USA

    Phyllis J. Kanki

  2. University of Kinshasa Medical School, Zaire, France

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  3. University of Dakar, Senegal, France

    Souleymane M. Boup

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Kanki, P.J., Kalengayi, M., Boup, S.M. (1991). HIV Perinatal Transmission and Reproductive Health. In: Chen, L.C., Amor, J.S., Segal, S.J., Anderson, J.M. (eds) AIDS and Women’s Reproductive Health. Reproductive Biology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-3354-2_12

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