AIDS/HIV (Obstetrics)

Viral Load Determines Mother-to-Child Transmission Rate

Published in Women's Health Weekly, December 25th, 1995

High levels of HIV in the bloodstream of pregnant women is required for the virus to be transmitted to their newborns, researchers reported recently.

In a study of 30 pregnant women, New York State Department of Health researchers projected that patients with a load of 50,000 viral particles per milliliter of blood had a 75 percent probability of transmitting the disease to their infants. Below that level, the odds drop to just 3 percent, the study found.

Dr. Barbara Weiser, a coauthor of the study published in the December 19, 1995, issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, said that the research was an effort to find a...

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