Obstetrics

Thai hospital claims reduced mother-baby transmission

Published in Women's Health Weekly, September 26th, 2002

A Bangkok hospital says it has cut the rate of HIV transmission from pregnant mothers to their unborn children using a drug cocktail rather than a single antiretroviral dosage.

The government-run Siriraj Hospital said that it gave 106 pregnant women infected with HIV two antiretroviral drugs after 34 weeks of pregnancy and saw the transmission rate fall to just 2.8%.

Previously, infected mothers at the hospital were given the drug AZT, which reduced the transmission rate to 11.7%. By giving them a cocktail of AZT and 3TC, or lamivudine, the rate fell by nearly 9 percentage points, it said.

The hospital said the treatment can be...

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Source: Women's Health Weekly (2002-09-26)

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