HIV/AIDS (Vertical Transmission)

Low Virus Transmission With AZT and C-Section Combination

Published in Women's Health Weekly, July 6th, 1998

HIV positive pregnant women may have the best chance of preventing disease transmission to their newborns by having an elective cesarean delivery and undergoing zidovudine (AZT) therapy while pregnant.

Laurent Mandelbrot, MD, of Hopital Cochin-Port Royal in Paris, France, and colleagues studied 2,834 mother-infant pairs in France to determine if the mode of delivery had an impact on perinatal HIV-1 transmission while mothers were undergoing AZT therapy. They presented their findings in an article in the July 1, 1998, issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), a special theme issue on HIV/AIDS.

The researchers found among 1,917...

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