HIV/AIDS
Medical College publishes research in HIV/AIDS
Published in AIDS Weekly, January 14th, 2008
Data detailed in 'Modeling Maternal-Infant HIV Transmission in the Presence of Breastfeeding with an Imperfect Test' have been presented. According to recent research from Pune, India, "An important public health question is to determine the probabilities of perinatal HIV transmission and when it occurs, whether antepartum, intrapartum, or postpartum through breastfeeding. However, this is a difficult problem because the presence of HIV infection in an infant can only be ascertained through viral assays in the postpartum period."
"We propose a model that simultaneously estimates the risks of antepartum, intrapartum, and postpartum transmissions together with the...
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Source: AIDS Weekly (2008-01-14)
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