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Vertical Transmission
U.S. Study Says Drug Has Saved Newborns from AIDS
August 23rd, 1999
Use of the drug AZT appears to have caused substantial declines in the number of U.S. mothers who pass the disease to newborn children, but the same trend has not happened in developing countries, according to published reports. Researchers at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said perinatal AIDS cases peaked in the United States in 1992 and then declined by 67 percent from 1992 to 1997. The drop was associated with an increase in use of AZT - zidovudine - to reduce transmissions of the disease from mothers to their children. Since 1994, the U.S. Public Health Service has recommended routine, voluntary HIV testing for at-risk...
Source: AIDS Weekly (1999-08-23)
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