Sentences with phrase «hiv infection during pregnancy»

Women living in world regions where HIV infection is common are at high risk of acquiring HIV infection during pregnancy and the postpartum period, according to a study by US researchers published in this week's PLOS Medicine.

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If you have an infection like HIV or herpes, your doctor may encourage a c - section early on in your pregnancy, as these infections can be transmitted during a vaginal delivery.

MTCT is the term most often used for HIV transmission during pregnancy, birth or breastfeeding, because the immediate source of the child's HIV infection is the mother.

During your pregnancy and delivery, you should take antiretroviral drugs (used to treat or prevent HIV) to lower the risk of passing the infection to your baby — even if your HIV viral load is very low.

Women who are HIV positive are advised to take antiretroviral medicine during pregnancy to lower the risk that their babies will contract HIV infection.

«Risk of HIV infection high during pregnancy, the postpartum period.»

Alison Drake and colleagues from the University of Washington in Seattle also found that mothers who acquire HIV during pregnancy or postpartum are more likely to pass the infection on to their offspring than mothers with chronic HIV infections.

Although limited by differences in the quality of the studies included in this review, these findings have important implications: they suggest that women living in regions where HIV infection is common should be offered repeat HIV testing during pregnancy and in the postpartum period to detect incident HIV infections, and that preventing HIV transmission during pregnancy and the postpartum period should be prioritized, for example, by counseling women about the need to use condoms to prevent transmission during this period of their lives.