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Lack Of HIV Testing In Pregnant Women Risks Passing Virus To Babies.
2001 AUG 23 - (NewsRx Network) -- While current guidelines call for all pregnant women m the U.S. to be tested for HIV, nearly half are not, according to a new study. As a result, they run the risk of passing the infection to their babies.
Because HIV infection has a long incubation period, many pregnant women may have the infection and not know it. However, treatment with the antiretroviral drug, zidovudine, can reduce the risk of HIV infected women passing the virus to their babies as well as benefiting the health of the women.
Since 1994 when the guidelines came out, the number of pregnant women being tested has increased from 41% to 56% in 1999. This leaves many pregnant women untested.
"The good news is that we have seen an increase in testing since the guidelines were released," says the study's lead author Amy Lansky, MPH, PhD, of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) National Center for HIV, STD and ...
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