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Number of infants born with HIV down 80% since 1991. (U.S. Data).
BARCELONA, SPAIN -- The number of infants born infected with HIV in the United States fell to an estimated total of about 350 in 2000.
This is about an 80% drop from the peak rate in 1991 based on calculations by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
The fall is "a tremendous success, undoubtedly one of the great success stories in the HIV epidemic," Dr. Robert Janssen commented during a press briefing at the 14th International AIDS Conference.
The successful control of perinatal transmission of HIV in the United States is the result of the expansion of voluntary HIV counseling and testing and expanded prophylactic treatment of infected women during pregnancy and delivery over the past decade, said Dr. Janssen, director of the CDC's Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention, Surveillance, and Epidemiology in Atlanta.
The CDC's method for estimating perinatal transmission rates in 2000 was reported in a ...
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