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FONSECA, Carlos Eduardo  e  PRIETO, Franklyn Edwin. Managing HIV during pregnancy and in exposed newborn children. Rev Colomb Obstet Ginecol [online]. 2005, vol.56, n.1, pp. 68-81. ISSN 0034-7434.

HIV/AIDS attacks women progressively; in turn this raises the risk of HIV mother-to-child transmission. Early HIV diagnosis, through HIV counselling and voluntary testing during antenatal check-ups, enables opportune anti-retroviral treatment; it could diminish antepartum, intrapartum and postpartum HIV transmission. The main topics dealt with in this review concern managing HIV in pregnancy and exposed newborn children. An integral health-care approach should ensure reducing mother-to-child transmission risk to less than 2%.

Palavras-chave : human immunodeficiency virus (HIV); disease transmission; vertical/prevention and control; prenatal care; prenatal diagnosis; highly active antiretroviral therapy.