title: Care of HIV-positive obstetric patients. Meeting a multigenerational challenge.
abstract: Caring for pregnant women who are HIV-positive challenges family physicians to manage a disease that can be multigenerational, directly affecting parents and their offspring and indirectly affecting many others. I review current literature on prenatal, intrapartum, and postpartum care of HIV-positive patients. Management of HIV-positive women must be comprehensive, supportive, and sensitive to new information.
authors.affiliation: Department of Family Medicine, University of Western Ontario.
authors.forename: C M
authors.initials: CM
authors.lastname: Peckan
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D015988:Cohort Effect; D036861:Delivery, Obstetric; D005260:Female; D006679:HIV Seropositivity / Q000628:therapy* / Q000635:transmission; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D011247:Pregnancy; D011251:Pregnancy Complications, Infectious / Q000628:therapy*; D011295:Prenatal Care