Preventing Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV (Developed)

If a woman who is HIV positive becomes pregnant, there's a risk that her baby will contract HIV during pregnancy, childbirth, or breast feeding. Becky Kuhn, M.D. explains how the risk can be reduced through the use of antiretroviral medications for the mother and the infant and the use of formula instead of breast feeding. These guidelines are for women in developed countries with reliable access to ARVs, formula, and clean water. Visit http://www.GlobalLifeworks.org and http://AIDSvideos.org to learn more. This video is freely downloadable from http://www.archive.org/details/aidsvideos_mtct_developed . Disabled accessibility: The transcript for this and many other AIDSvideos.org videos can be downloaded from http://aidsvideos.org/translate.shtml . [Do you want to help prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS? Are you fluent in a language other than English? Then volunteer to translate our videos into other languages! Click http://AIDSvideos.org/translate.shtml to to learn how you can help!!! © Copyright 2006-2011 Global Lifeworks. All rights reserved. This work is licensed to be used for non-commercial purposes under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/.]

Category:

Education

Tags:

• HIV
• AIDS
• mother-to-child
• transmission
• MTCT
• prevention
• antiretroviral
• virus
• education
• infant
• formula
• ARV
• breast
• feeding

[SupHobagg]

what I think is odd, not in this particular set of videos..but in all of the things they teach in supposed "sex-ed" in school and the general literature is that..if you're in a monagomous relationship and have sex with that 1 partner..one of you has to be infected before either of you will ever get it. why is that?

[AIDSvideos]

It's because we're talking about viral (HIV, herpes, HPV) and bacterial (syphilis, gonorrhea, chlamydia) infections. In the modern world, viruses and bacteria don't spontaneously arise out of nowhere; you have to contract them (become infected) by being exposed to them. If two people have never been exposed to any of those things are mutually monogamous, they will not become infected by having sex with each other. (Of course, if one cheats or shares needles, they can contract something.)

[DJINEVIL2323]

Can I look up the peer-reviewed papers on this subject?

because this sems like opinion, and not scientific.

[AIDSvideos]

HIV causes AIDS. See: Ho et al, "Pathogenesis of infection with human immunodeficiency virus," N Engl J Med 1987;317(5):278-86. Fauci AS, "Multifactorial nature of human immunodeficiency virus disease: implications for therapy." Science 1993a;262(3136):1011-8. Greene WC, "AIDS and the immune system," Sci Am 1993;269(3):98-105. Levy, "Pathogenesis of human immunodeficiency virus infection," Microbiol Rev 1993;57(1):183-289. Weiss RA, "How does HIV cause AIDS?" Science 1993;260(5112):1273-9.

[SupHobagg]

right...i agree. the only thing is in school they fear-monger a LOT. all i was saying. hope your 2010's going well