Document 0694
 DOCN  M95A0694
 TI    Assessing the risks for perinatal infection. 
 DT    9510
 SO    AIDS Alert. 1995 Apr;10(4):56. Unique Identifier : AIDSLINE
       AIDS/95700227
 AB    The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recently conducted
       a review of 5,554 cases of children with perinatally acquired AIDS
       through December 1994 in order to determine the risks of perinatally
       acquired AIDS. CDC epidemiologist Teresa Hammett reported at the HIV
       Infection in Women: Setting A New Agenda conference in Washington, DC,
       that the data showed a significant risk of perinatal infection from
       women who were injection drug users or had heterosexual contact with a
       known drug user. Hammett also said that a maternal risk study currently
       is under way that evaluates information on the mother's medical record
       and/or information obtained through discussion with the mother. Programs
       that target mothers and their partners at high risk must be culturally
       and linguistically appropriate. The CDC, as part of its AIDS
       surveillance data analysis, also plans to implement studies of HIV risk
       behaviors among more recently infected women, and women with sexually
       transmitted diseases.
 DE    Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome/*TRANSMISSION  *Disease Transmission,
       Vertical  Female  Human  Pregnancy  Pregnancy Complications, Infectious
       Substance Abuse, Intravenous/*COMPLICATIONS  NEWSLETTER ARTICLE  REVIEW

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