Sentences with phrase «prevent infection during pregnancy»

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Should you be sexually active with multiple partners during your pregnancy or have a partner with an active infection, it is imperative that you use protection to prevent contracting an STD.

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.

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.

«This is a promising intervention to prevent and treat ZIKV infection during pregnancy,» said David Watkins, Ph.D., professor and vice chair for research, Department of Pathology.

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