Mother to Child Transmission

Mother-to-child manual of HIV is the advance of HIV from an HIV-infected woman to her adolescent during pregnancy, accouchement (also alleged activity and delivery), or breastfeeding (through breast milk). Mother-to-child manual is the a lot of accepted way that accouchement become adulterated with HIV.
Pregnant women with HIV accept HIV medicines during abundance and accouchement to abate the accident of mother-to-child manual of HIV. In some situations, a woman with HIV may accept a appointed cesarean supply (sometimes alleged a C-section) to anticipate mother-to-child manual of HIV during delivery.
Babies built-in to women with HIV accept HIV anesthetic for 6 weeks afterwards birth. The HIV anesthetic reduces the accident of infection from any HIV that may accept entered a baby’s physique during childbirth.
Because HIV can be transmitted in breast milk, women with HIV active in the United States should not breastfeed their babies. In the United States, babyish blueprint is a safe and advantageous another to breast milk.
What is mother-to-child manual of HIV?
Mother-to-child manual of HIV is the advance of HIV from an HIV-infected woman to her adolescent during pregnancy, accouchement (also alleged activity and delivery), or breastfeeding (through breast milk). Mother-to-child manual of HIV is aswell alleged perinatal manual of HIV.
Mother-to-child manual is the a lot of accepted way that accouchement become adulterated with HIV.
Can mother-to-child manual of HIV be prevented?
Yes. The accident of mother-to-child manual of HIV is low when:
Women with HIV accept HIV anesthetic during abundance and accouchement and, in assertive situations, accept a appointed cesarean supply (sometimes alleged a C-section).
Babies built-in to women with HIV accept HIV medicines for 6 weeks afterwards bearing and are not breastfed.

Is HIV testing recommended for abundant women?
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommends that all abundant women get activated for HIV as aboriginal as accessible during anniversary pregnancy.
Pregnant women who analysis HIV absolute accept HIV medicines to abate the accident of mother-to-child manual of HIV and to assure their own health. (HIV medicines are recommended for anybody adulterated with HIV. HIV medicines advice humans with HIV reside longer, convalescent lives and abate the accident of animal manual of HIV.)
How do HIV medicines anticipate mother-to-child manual of HIV?
HIV medicines abate the bulk of HIV in the body. Having beneath HIV in the physique reduces a woman's accident of casual HIV to her adolescent during abundance and childbirth. Having beneath HIV in the physique aswell protects the woman's health.
Some of the HIV anesthetic passes from the abundant woman to her approaching babyish beyond the placenta (also alleged the afterbirth). This alteration of HIV anesthetic protects the babyish from HIV infection, abnormally during a vaginal supply if the babyish passes through the bearing aqueduct and is apparent to any HIV in the mother’s claret or added fluids. In some situations, a woman with HIV may accept a cesarean supply (sometimes alleged a C-section) to abate the accident of mother-to-child manual of HIV during delivery.
Babies built-in to women with HIV accept HIV anesthetic for 6 weeks afterwards birth. The HIV anesthetic reduces the accident of infection from any HIV that may accept entered a baby’s physique during childbirth.
Are HIV medicines safe to use during pregnancy?
Pregnant women with HIV can cautiously use abounding HIV medicines during abundance to anticipate mother-to-child manual of HIV and to assure their own health. Bloom affliction providers anxiously accede the allowances and the risks of HIV medicines if advising HIV medicines to use during pregnancy.
The afterward factors are advised if allotment HIV medicines to use during pregnancy:
Pregnancy-related changes in the physique that can affect how the physique processes HIV medicines. Because of these changes, the dosage of an HIV anesthetic may change during pregnancy.
The accident of assertive ancillary furnishings from some HIV medicines during pregnancy.
The abeyant short- and abiding furnishings of HIV medicines on babies built-in to women with HIV. Thus far, no HIV medicines accept been acutely affiliated to bearing defects.
Are there added means to anticipate mother-to-child manual of HIV?
Because HIV can be transmitted in breast milk, HIV-infected women in the United States should not breastfeed their babies. In the United States, babyish blueprint is a safe and advantageous another to breast milk.
There are letters of accouchement acceptable adulterated with HIV by bistro aliment that was ahead chewed by a being adulterated with HIV. To be safe, babies should not be fed pre-chewed food.
How can I apprentice added about preventing mother-to-child manual of HIV?
Read the afterward AIDSinfo actuality sheets:
The Use of HIV Medicines During Pregnancy
Preventing Mother-to-Child Manual of HIV During Childbirth
Preventing Mother-to-Child Manual of HIV Afterwards Birth
This actuality area is based on advice from the afterward sources:
From CDC: HIV Among Abundant Women, Infants, and Accouchement
From the Department of Bloom and Human Services: Recommendations for Use of Antiretroviral Drugs in Abundant HIV-1-Infected Women for Maternal Bloom and Interventions to Abate Perinatal HIV Manual in the United States