Experience with routine voluntary perinatal human immunodeficiency virus testing in an inner city hospital.
Women enrolled in prenatal care at Grady Health System, Atlanta, GA, have routinely been offered HIV counseling and voluntary testing since 1987. Consistently >90% have accepted testing. With implementation of US Public Health Service guidelines for perinatal zidovudine prophylaxis in 1994, the mother-to-child HIV transmission rate rapidly decreased from 18% to 8% during the subsequent 2 years.
Henderson
S L
SL
Department of Pediatrics, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, USA. Sheryl_Henderson@oz.ped.emory.edu
Lindsay
M K
MK
Higgins
J E
JE
Clark
W S
WS
Bulterys
M
M
Nesheim
S R
SR
D019380:Anti-HIV Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D003657:Decision Making; D005260:Female; D006678:HIV / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D015658:HIV Infections / Q000517:prevention & control / Q000635:transmission*; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D018445:Infectious Disease Transmission, Vertical / Q000517:prevention & control*; D016015:Logistic Models; D008403:Mass Screening; D011247:Pregnancy; D011295:Prenatal Care; D012307:Risk Factors; D015215:Zidovudine / Q000627:therapeutic use*
D019380:Anti-HIV Agents; D015215:Zidovudine