"Acceptability and Impact of Zidovudine for Prevention of Mother-to-Child Human Immunodeficiency Virus-1 Transmission in France."

According to the authors' abstract of an article published in Journal of Pediatrics, "We studied the propagation and the impact of zidovudine prevention on the human immunodeficiency virus-1 transmission rate from infected mothers to their infants in the French nationwide prospective cohort. Infection was diagnosed in the children on the basis of at least two positive human immunodeficiency virus-1 polymerase chain reaction tests, culture, or both. The transmission rate among treated women was compared with that among untreated women during the same period and with that among women enrolled in the cohort since 1986. The impact of zidovudine was analyzed according to the women's clinical...

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