Reducing the odds preventing perinatal transmission of HIV in the United States

Title:

Author:

Stoto, Michael A.

ISBN:

9780585047331

9780309062862

Publication Information:

Washington, D.C. : National Academy Press, 1999.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 397 p.) : ill.

Contents:

Introduction -- Public Health Screening Programs -- Descriptive Epidemiology of the Perinatal Transmission of HIV -- Natural History, Detection, and Treatment of HIV Infection in Pregnant Women and Newborns -- Context of Services for Women and Children Affected by HIV/AIDS -- Implementation and Impact of the Public Health Service Counseling and Testing Guidelines -- Recommendations -- Committee and Staff Biographies -- Context of Services for Women and Children Affected by HIV/AIDS -- Workshop I Summary -- Workshop II Summary -- New York/New Jersey Site Visit Summary -- Alabama Site Visit Summary -- South Texas Site Visit Summary -- Florida Conference Summary -- HIV Testing and Perinatal Transmission: Thoughts from an HIV-Positive Mother -- Human Immunodeficiency Virus Antibody Testing Among Women 15-44: Results from the 1995 National Survey of Family Growth.

Abstract:

In response to a congressional request, this report evaluates state efforts to reduce perinatal transmission of HIV. The committee recommends that HIV testing be a routine part of prenatal care, and that health care providers notify women that HIV testing is part of the usual array of prenatal tests and that they can refuse the HIV test. This approach could help both reduce the number of pediatric AIDS cases and improve treatment for mother with AIDS.

Reducing the Odds will be of special interest to federal, state, and local health policymakers, prenatal care providers, maternal and child health specialists, public health practitioners, and advocates for HIV/AIDS patients.

Subject Term:

AIDS (Disease) in pregnancy -- United States.

AIDS (Disease) in infants -- United States -- Prevention.

HIV infections -- United States -- Prevention.

AIDS (Disease) in women -- Treatment -- United States.

HIV Infections -- prevention and control -- United States.

HIV Infections -- United States.

Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome -- prevention & control -- United States.

Disease Transmission, Vertical -- prevention & control -- United States.

Mass Screening -- United States.

Pregnancy Complications, Infectious -- prevention & control -- United States.

Pregnancy Complications, Infections -- prevention & control -- United States.