title: Experience with routine voluntary perinatal human immunodeficiency virus testing in an inner city hospital.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pediatrics, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA, USA. Sheryl_Henderson@oz.ped.emory.edu
authors.forename: S L
authors.initials: SL
authors.lastname: Henderson
authors.forename: M K
authors.initials: MK
authors.lastname: Lindsay
authors.forename: J E
authors.initials: JE
authors.lastname: Higgins
authors.forename: W S
authors.initials: WS
authors.lastname: Clark
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Bulterys
authors.forename: S R
authors.initials: SR
authors.lastname: Nesheim
mesh_terms: 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*
chemical_list: D019380:Anti-HIV Agents; D015215:Zidovudine