Experience with routine voluntary perinatal human immunodeficiency virus testing in an inner city hospital

Pediatr Infect Dis J. 2001 Nov;20(11):1090-2. doi: 10.1097/00006454-200111000-00019.

Abstract

Women enrolled in prenatal care at Grady Health System, Atlanta, GA, have routinely been offered HIV counseling and voluntary testing since 1987. Consistently >90% have accepted testing. With implementation of US Public Health Service guidelines for perinatal zidovudine prophylaxis in 1994, the mother-to-child HIV transmission rate rapidly decreased from 18% to 8% during the subsequent 2 years.

Publication types

  • Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.

MeSH terms

  • Anti-HIV Agents / therapeutic use*
  • Decision Making
  • Female
  • HIV / isolation & purification*
  • HIV Infections / prevention & control
  • HIV Infections / transmission*
  • Humans
  • Infant, Newborn
  • Infectious Disease Transmission, Vertical / prevention & control*
  • Logistic Models
  • Mass Screening
  • Pregnancy
  • Prenatal Care
  • Risk Factors
  • Zidovudine / therapeutic use*

Substances

  • Anti-HIV Agents
  • Zidovudine