Healthy mothers, healthy babies: preventing vertical transmission of HIV/AIDS.
Nurses play a crucial role in ensuring that women with HIV get appropriate treatment and care during their pregnancy. This article reviews testing in pregnancy, factors associated with perinatal transmission, guidelines for management of pregnancy, labour and delivery and for postpartum care, and the identification of high-risk women as well as strategies for intervention with pregnant women with HIV.
McCall
Jane
J
HIV Program, St. Paul's Hospital, USA.
Vicol
Laura
L
Tsang
Gloria
G
D019380:Anti-HIV Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use; D018791:CD4 Lymphocyte Count; D005260:Female; D015658:HIV Infections / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000517:prevention & control* / Q000635:transmission; D006293:Health Promotion; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D018445:Infectious Disease Transmission, Vertical / Q000517:prevention & control*; D016389:Maternal-Child Nursing; D024802:Nurse's Role; D011181:Postnatal Care; D011247:Pregnancy; D011251:Pregnancy Complications, Infectious / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000517:prevention & control*; D018566:Pregnancy, High-Risk; D011295:Prenatal Care; D012307:Risk Factors; D019562:Viral Load
D019380:Anti-HIV Agents