Open AccessSOLUTION-ORIENTED APPROAСHES TO HIV TRANSMISSION FROM MOTHER ТО СНILD AND PRESERVATION OF FAMILY HEALTH DUE AССOUNT FOR MEDICAL-SOCIAL PERFORMANСE
Author(s) -
E. B. Yastrebova,
Татьяна Николаевна Виноградова,
Aza Rakhmanova
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
èpidemiologiâ i infekcionnye bolezni
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2411-3026
pISSN - 1560-9529
DOI - 10.17816/eid40637
Subject(s) - childbirth , human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) , medicine , pregnancy , transmission (telecommunications) , family medicine , genetics , electrical engineering , biology , engineering
This article presents the data of analysis of medical and social characteristics of 629 mother-infant pairs with HIV infection examined in the Department of mothers and children of the St. Petersburg AIDS Center. The new direction "the family - HIV-infection" has been developed. This direction is based on the complex medical, social, and psychological monitoring of the family at the stage of planning, pregnancy, childbirth, and during all periods of childhood, to the timely prevention, diagnosis and treatment of HIV infection in women, their sexual partners and children, and also to improve the demographic situation in the metropolis. It allowed to increase the number of observed HIV infected families, reduce HIV transmission from mother to child, diminish the number of orphaned children, and also to cut maternal and infant mortality rate.