1998
DOI: 10.1136/jms.5.4.170
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Antenatal screening for HIV in the UK: what is to be done?

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“…Data derived through the BPSU and its equivalents have contributed substantially to those decisions ( Table 2). In the 1990s surveillance for paediatric AIDS revealed considerable numbers of children vertically infected with HIV from their mothers, in the UK 14 . For many of these children the development of a lifethreatening AIDS-de®ning condition was seemingly the ®rst occasion that the mother's infection was known about (Figure 3).…”
Section: Public Health Outputsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Data derived through the BPSU and its equivalents have contributed substantially to those decisions ( Table 2). In the 1990s surveillance for paediatric AIDS revealed considerable numbers of children vertically infected with HIV from their mothers, in the UK 14 . For many of these children the development of a lifethreatening AIDS-de®ning condition was seemingly the ®rst occasion that the mother's infection was known about (Figure 3).…”
Section: Public Health Outputsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Investimentos em políticas de prevenção podem contribuir para a redução nas taxas de infecção por transmissão vertical, entretanto, a efetividade dos programas dependerá do diagnóstico da infecção materna antes do nascimento da criança. Considerando-se a importância do diagnóstico sorológico precoce associado à terapia anti-retroviral, inúmeros países, inclusive o Brasil, têm implementado a disponibilização da sorologia anti-HIV durante o período gestacional, com vistas a propiciar uma oportunidade de diagnóstico precoce da infecção e a conseqüente instituição de medidas profiláticas (CARUSI; LEARMAN; POSNER, 1998;GARCIA et al, 2005;MINKOFF, 2003;NAVER et al, 2006;NEVES;PASSOS;GUELERI, 1999;NICOLL, 1998;OTTEWILL, 2000).…”
Section: A Epidemia Do Hiv No Mundo -Uma Visão Geralunclassified