MEDICAL UPDATE: Mother To Fetus Transmission Of HIV

MEDICAL UPDATE: Mother To Fetus Transmission Of HIV

Being Alive Newsletter; December 1992
Mark Katz MD and reported by Jim Stoecker

There have been a number of studies that have focused on HIV transmission from mother to fetus. A recent study in the Journal of Infectious Diseases indicates that transmission may occur any time after conception. Researchers studied 23 fetuses that were aborted by HIV+ women in the second trimester of pregnancy. They found that seven of the fetuses (or 30%) were HIV+. This, of course, is a small sampling. But the study does indicate that HIV transmission can, and in some cases does, occur early in pregnancy.
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