Research & News
Preterm Delivery Among Women on ARVs
Nov 14, 2014
Researchers looked retrospectively at delivery records from HIV-positive women who delivered between 1996 and 2010 to determine if use of ARVs during pregnancy contributed to preterm delivery. These results showed some correlation between the use of ARVs and the... Read More
New Study Tests Early ARVs in HIV-Infected Infants
Nov 03, 2014
The NIH announced that the IMPAACT group will be starting a new clinical trial, IMPAACT P1115, which will look at the administration of HIV ARVs immediately after birth to infected infants can lead to remission of the virus. This research was prompted by the finding in... Read More
Use of Text Messages to Support Pregnant, HIV-Positive Women Increased Infant Testing
Oct 22, 2014
A randomized controlled trial in sub-Saharan Africa looked at the use of text messaging to keep mothers in care postpartum and increase rates of infant HIV testing. Those women who received text messages during and after pregnancy had significantly higher rates of early... Read More
Perinatal Transmission Higher in Women with Incident HIV
Oct 22, 2014
A meta-analysis done by researchers in Washington found that the pooled perinatal transmission rate was 22.7% among pregnant and postpartum women worldwide with incident HIV, which is 2.8-fold higher than women with chronic HIV infection. This is significant for the... Read More
Flu Vaccine, Pregnancy, and HIV
Sep 30, 2014
A randomized controlled trial conducted in South Africa looked at women both with and without HIV who received the flu vaccine. The vaccine proved to be effective (providing partial protection against influenza) in both women with HIV and women without HIV.
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"Mississippi Baby" Shows Detectable Levels of HIV
Aug 08, 2014
According to the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the child known as the "Mississippi Baby" - an infant seemingly cured of HIV that was reported as a case study of a prolonged remission of HIV infection in The New England Journal of Medicine last fall—now has detectable... Read More
Repeat Third Trimester HIV Testing Uptake
Jul 01, 2014
Acceptability and feasibility of third trimester repeat HIV testing was explored following two documented cases of HIV seroconversion during pregnancy. Researchers found that most women were amenable to repeat third trimester HIV testing with the acceptance rate at 97.1... Read More
Review of HIV Screening in Hospital Labor and Deliveries
Jun 01, 2014
In order to estimate prenatal HIV screening rates prior to and on admission to labor and delivery as well as review hospital policies around these practices, researchers conducted a survey of hospitals and maternal/infant medical records in 2006. At that time, only 36%... Read More
Challenges Towards Elimination of Perinatal HIV in the US
May 30, 2014
Although perinatal HIV transmission is nearly zero in many groups throughout the United States, there are still those groups that are seeing consistently high rates of transmission. Researchers looked at HIV-exposed infants referred for follow-up care over a seven year... Read More
HIV Prevention for Heterosexual Black Women
May 30, 2014
This article describes the development, evaluation and dissemination by the CDC of SisterLove, Inc.'s program Healthy Love. This program is designed to reduce HIV and sexually transmitted disease related risk behaviors among heterosexual black women in the south. After a... Read More
