Epidemiology

Efforts to prevent perinatal HIV transmission in Michigan highly successful

Published in Medical Letter on the CDC and FDA, March 10th, 2002

Efforts to prevent perinatal HIV transmission in Michigan have been highly successful, with the percentage of children perinatally infected with HIV decreasing significantly from 19% (15) of children born to infected mothers in 1993 to 3% (2) in 2000, according to a new report in Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Reports from the U.S.Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (February 8, 2002).

This reduction is attributed to increases in efforts to offer voluntary HIV counseling and testing to all pregnant women and the use of Zidovudine prophylaxis during pregnancy for HIV infected women.

To identify opportunities to further reduce perinatal...

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