Treatment 'slashes baby HIV risk' - BBC Health News 6th May 2008

Wednesday, May 07, 2008

Appropriate treatment can all but eradicate the risk that a pregnant woman with HIV will pass the virus to her child, research shows. Data on 5,151 HIV pregnancies in the UK and Ireland between 2000 and 2006 found an infant infection rate of just 1.2% where preventative steps were taken. In the mid-1990s, before effective drug therapy became available, the infant infection rate was over 20%. University College London led the Aids Online study.

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