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Pregnant Women: Care and Treatment

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Epidemiology of HIV/AIDS in Women

HIV/AIDS continues to be a major global cause of morbidity and mortality in women. In 2011, more than 50 % of the 34 million people infected with HIV were women (UNAIDS/WHO 2012). HIV/AIDS is the major cause of death in women of childbearing age (ages 15–49) in the developing world. The primary mode of HIV transmission in women in the United States and globally is heterosexual contact. In 2013, there were 24.7 million people living with HIV/AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa, the global region that accounts for approximately 70 % of HIV/AIDS cases, and 58 % of those were women. In the United States, women accounted for approximately 24 % of new diagnoses of AIDS in 2012 (Centers for Disease Control 2014), and there were over 270,000 women among the 1.1 million people living with HIV infection and AIDS in the United States as of 2013. With the increase in access to potent antiretroviral therapy (ART) in developing countries, the rates of perinatal infection...

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  1. Division of Infectious Diseases, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN, USA

    Christina Fiske

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  1. Dept. Cell & Molecular Biology, Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, USA

    Thomas J. Hope

  2. Office of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies, University of Miami, Miller School of Medicine, Miami, Florida, USA

    Mario Stevenson

  3. University of California, San Diego Dept. Pathology, La Jolla, California, USA

    Douglas Richman

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  1. Obstetrics and Gynecology, Vanderbilt University, Vanderbilt Institute for Global Health, D-7235 MCN; 1161 21st Avenue South, 37232-2581, Nashville, TN, USA

    Sten Vermund M.D., Ph.D.

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Fiske, C. (2016). Pregnant Women: Care and Treatment. In: Hope, T., Stevenson, M., Richman, D. (eds) Encyclopedia of AIDS. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-9610-6_254-1

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