HIV Screening

Testing Pregnant Women is Cost-Effective

Published in Women's Health Weekly, March 1st, 2001

by Michael Greer, staff medical writer -- Researchers in California believe that efforts to increase voluntary HIV screening of pregnant women both before and after delivery are cost-effective ways of preventing infection.

D.K. Owens and colleagues at Stanford University conducted a study to "evaluate the cost effectiveness of voluntary prenatal and routine postnatal HIV screening in the cohort of pregnant women and newborns in the United States," with the results published in the Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes.

Owens et al. developed a statistical model to quantify the expected results of enhanced HIV screening for pregnant...

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