HIV/AIDS
Pregnancy May Help Cut Risks for HIV-infected Women
Published in Women's Health Weekly, October 4th, 2007
Their findings, posted last week on the online edition of the Journal of Infectious Diseases, suggest that “the complex set of immunologic changes” that occur during pregnancy may be interacting in a beneficial way with combination drug therapy.
Some previous studies in the developing world had reported higher levels of complications and deaths from AIDS among pregnant women. But those studies were conducted before the advent of highly active anti-retroviral therapy (HAART), drug “cocktails” that...
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