Perinatal HIV Infection - An Update

Perinatal HIV Infection

Objectives.\p=m-\Toassess health care providers' identification of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)\p=m-\exposedinfants, to ascertain the prevalence of transplacental or oral zidovudine treatment among infants exposed to HIV, and to estimate the impact of zidovudine use on perinatal transmission in rural and urban North Carolina. Design.\p=m-\Surveyof North Carolina newborns tested for HIV in...

Syphilis and HIV infection: an update.

The striking increase in the prevalence of concordant human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection and syphilis observed by clinicians and public health officers over the past decade has renewed interest in the subject. Although the effect of HIV infection on the natural history of syphilis has been known for a long time, it was not until recently that several studies documented that syphilis m...

Prevention of perinatal transmission of HIV infection.

The University of Alberta Pediatric HIV Clinic serves an area with an estimated population of 1.2 million, with 25 000 births annually. Records were reviewed from Jan. 1, 1988, to Dec. 31, 1999, for all children born in northern Alberta to women with HIV infection to determine our success rate at preventing perinatal HIV transmission. A child was considered to be HIV infected if he or she had 2...

Failure to prevent perinatal HIV infection.

Are microRNAs Important Players in HIV-1 Infection? An Update

HIV-1 has already claimed over 35 million human lives globally. No curative treatments are currently available, and the only treatment option for over 36 million people currently living with HIV/AIDS are antiretroviral drugs that disrupt the function of virus-encoded proteins. However, such virus-targeted therapeutic strategies are constrained by the ability of the virus to develop drug-resista...