[HIV infection in pregnant women in Chelyabinsk]

Zh Mikrobiol Epidemiol Immunobiol. 2005 Jan-Feb:(1):73-4.
[Article in Russian]

Abstract

Data on HIV infection in pregnant women in Chelyabinsk are presented. Starting from 1999, a considerable rise in the number of HIV-infected persons was registered in this city. The social and epidemiological characteristics of HIV-infected pregnant women, as well as the main routes and factors of the infective agent transmission, are given. Relationship between the spread of HIV-infection and drug addiction is revealed. The occurrence of different opportunistic infections in HIV-infected pregnant women is determined.

Publication types

  • English Abstract

MeSH terms

  • Adolescent
  • Adult
  • Disease Outbreaks
  • Female
  • HIV Infections / complications
  • HIV Infections / epidemiology*
  • HIV Infections / transmission
  • Hepatitis B / etiology
  • Hepatitis C / etiology
  • Humans
  • Opportunistic Infections / etiology
  • Pregnancy
  • Pregnancy Complications, Infectious / epidemiology*
  • Risk Factors
  • Russia / epidemiology
  • Substance Abuse, Intravenous
  • Unsafe Sex
  • Urban Population