iClinic - July 28, 2000
Simpson evaluated 347 children born to HIV-infected mothers between 1985 and 1990 and between 1990 and 1997.
According to a report in the July issue of The Paediatric Infectious Disease Journal (2000;19:618-624), the researchers found that the rate of vertical HIV transmission dropped from 20.7 percent in the first period to 6.5 percent in the second period.
The investigators attribute much of the decline to routine zidovudine therapy for HIV-infected pregnant women.
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