Open AccessPreventing vertical transmission of HIV
Author(s) -
B Twisselmann
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
deleted journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 9999-1233
DOI - 10.2807/esw.06.31.01907-en
Subject(s) - serostatus , transmission (telecommunications) , human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) , population , medicine , environmental health , family medicine , computer science , telecommunications , viral load
Vertical transmission of HIV from mother to child can be prevented effectively only if the mother’s serostatus is known. Antenatal screening programmes can play an important part in this unless the prevalence in the population is very low, as reported in the Journal of Medical Screening (1).
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