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HIV/AIDS in pregnancy and newborn

Africa

• British Medical Journal
  • Monitoring and evaluation of programmes to prevent mother to child transmission of HIV in Africa [2007]

• Topics in Antiviral Medicine
  • Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV in Africa [2004]

Australia

• Women & Newborn Health Service - Western Australia
  • Quick reference guide - Management of the baby of the HIV positive woman [2009]
  • Quick reference guide - Management of the HIV positive woman [2009]

Bhutan

• Ministry of Health Bhutan
  • Guideline for Management of Pediatric HIV/AIDS [2008]
  • Prevention of Mother to Child Transmission Guideline

Botswana

• Ministry of Health Botswana
  • Prevention of Mother to Child Transmission

Canada

• Alberta Health
  • Prenatal HIV: Public Health Guidelines [2008]

• Canadian HIV Trials Network
  • Canadian consensus guidelines for the management of pregnancy, labour and delivery and for postpartum care in HIV-positive pregnant women and their offspring (summary of 2002 guidelines) [2003]
  • Canadian consensus guidelines for the care of HIV-positive pregnant women: putting recommendations into practice [2003]

• Canadian Paediatric Society
  • Testing for HIV infection in pregnancy [2013]

• Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada
  • HIV screening in pregnancy [2006]
  • Mode of delivery for pregnant women infected by the human immunodeficiency virus [2001]

Germany, Austria

• European Journal of Medical Research
  • German-austrian recommendations for HIV1-therapy in pregnancy and in HIV1-exposed newborn - update 2008 [2009]

Ghana

• Ghana Medical Journal
  • Review of Antenatal-Linked Voluntary Counseling and HIV Testing in Sub-Saharan Africa: Lessons and Options for Ghana [2005]

India

• BMC Public Health
  • Systematic review of public health research on prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV in India with focus on provision and utilization of cascade of PMTCT services [2012]

International

• Cochrane Library
  • Interventions for preventing late postnatal mother-to-child transmission of HIV
  • Intermittent preventive treatment regimens for malaria in HIV-positive pregnant women
  • Efficacy and safety of cesarean delivery for prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV-1
  • Antiretroviral therapy (ART) for treating HIV infection in ART-eligible pregnant women

• Interagency Task team on the Prevention and Treatment of HIV Infection in Pregnant Women, Mothers and Children
  • Interagency Task team on the Prevention and Treatment of HIV Infection in Pregnant Women, Mothers and Children

• International AIDS Society
  • Making Motherhood and Childhood Safer: Scaling Up AIDS Services Accelerates Progress Towards All Health Goals [2010]

• Program for Appropriate Technology in Health (PATH)
  • Sourcing Guide: The Nevirapine Infant-Dose Pouch for Use in Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV/AIDS Programs. Version 1 [2006]

• United Nations Population Division
  • HIV/AIDS and Fertility in Sub-Saharan Africa: A Review of the Research Literature [2002]

Malawi

• Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
  • Impact of an Innovative Approach to Prevent Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV — Malawi, July 2011–September 2012 [2013]

• PLoS ONE
  • Cost-Effectiveness Analysis of Option B+ for HIV Prevention and Treatment of Mothers and Children in Malawi [2013]

Malaysia

• Ministry of Health Malaysia
  • Clinical Practice Guidelines on Management of HIV infection in Pregnant Women [2008]

New Zealand

• Auckland District Health Board
  • Guidelines for Paediatric Management of Infants Born to HIV+ Pregnant Women [2007]

Nigeria

• Federal Ministry of Health Nigeria
  • 2005 National HIV/Syphilis Sero-prevalence Sentinel Survey among Pregnant Women Attending Antenatal Clinics in Nigeria [2006]

South Africa

• Bulletin of the World Health Organization
  • Eliminating mother-to-child HIV transmission in South Africa [2013]

• Department of Health South Africa
  • Evaluation of the Effectiveness of the National Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission (PMTCT) Programme Measured at Six Weeks Postpartum in South Africa, 2010 [2012]
  • National HIV and Syphilis Antenatal Sero-Prevalence Survey in South Africa 2004 [2004]

• Health Systems Trust
  • Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV [2009]

• Maternal Care Manual - Perinatal Education Programme
  • Screening tests for HIV [2006]

Sub-Saharan Africa

• Bulletin of the World Health Organization
  • Public sector services for the prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV infection: a micro-costing survey in Namibia and Rwanda [2013]

Trinidad and Tobago

• Ministry of Health Trinidad and Tobago
  • Prevention of Mother to Child Transmission Policy [2010]

Uganda

• Bulletin of the World Health Organization
  • Evaluating the cost-effectiveness of combination antiretroviral therapy for the prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV in Uganda [2012]

• HEPS-Uganda
  • Routine HIV testing and counselling and access to services for prevention of mother-to-child transmission [2010]

• Ministry of Health Uganda
  • Trends in antenatal HIV prevalence in urban Uganda associated with uptake of preventive sexual behaviour [2006]
  • Policy for reduction of the mother-to-child HIV transmission in Uganda [2003]

United Kingdom

• British HIV Association
  • British HIV Association guidelines for the management of HIV infection in pregnant women 2012 [2012]

• National Guideline Clearinghouse
  • Management of HIV in pregnancy. Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists [2010]

• Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists
  • Management of HIV in Pregnancy [2010]
  • National Study of HIV in Pregnancy & Childhood [2005]

United States of America

• American Academy of Pediatrics
  • Surveillance of Pediatric HIV Infection [2011]
  • HIV Testing and Prophylaxis to Prevent Mother-to-Child Transmission in the United States [2011]

• Body: An AIDS and HIV Information Resource
  • HIV and Pregnancy

• CDC HIV/AIDS
  • Pregnant Women, Infants and Children

• Madigan Army Medical Center
  • Perinatal HIV Referral Guidelines [2009]

• Mass.Gov
  • Clinical Advisory - Routine HIV Counseling and Testing of Pregnant Women [2008]

• Minnesota Department of Health
  • Perinatal Transmission of HIV

• National Guideline Clearinghouse
  • Recommendations for use of antiretroviral drugs in pregnant HIV-1-infected women for maternal health and interventions to reduce perinatal HIV transmission in the United States. Department of Health and Human Services (U.S.) [2012]
  • HIV testing during pregnancy and at delivery. New York State Department of Health [2011]
  • Acute HIV infection in pregnancy. New York State Department of Health [2011]
  • Preconception care for HIV-infected women. New York State Department of Health [2010]
  • Medical care of HIV-infected substance-using women. New York State Department of Health [2009]

• New York State Department of Health AIDS Institute
  • HIV Testing During Pregnancy and at Delivery [2011]
  • Acute HIV Infection in Pregnancy [2011]
  • Preconception Care for HIV-Infected Women [2010]

• RAND
  • Preventing Perinatal Transmission of HIV [2003]

• Topics in Antiviral Medicine
  • Prevention of perinatal HIV transmission: the Perinatal HIV Hotline perspective [2011]

• U.S. Agency for International Development
  • Community strategies that improve care and retention along the prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV cascade: a review [2012]

• University of Michigan Evidence-Based Pediatrics
  • Long and Short Prenatal and Postnatal Zidovudine Treatment Courses Are Comparable [2000]

• Women, Children, and HIV
  • Women, Children, and HIV

WHO

• National Guideline Clearinghouse
  • Antiretroviral drugs for treating pregnant women and preventing HIV infections in infants. WHO [2010]

• WHO Regional Office for Europe
  • Towards the elimination of mother-to-child transmission of HIV in low-prevalence and concentrated epidemic settings in Eastern Europe and Central Asia [2011]

• WHO Reproductive Health Library
  • Interventions for preventing late postnatal mother-to-child transmission of HIV [2009]
  • Antiretrovirals for reducing the risk of mother-to-child transmission of HIV infection [2007]
  • Vaginal disinfection for preventing mother-to-child transmission of HIV infection [2003]

• World Health Organization
  • Use of efavirenz during pregnancy: A public health perspective [2012]
  • Use of antiretroviral drugs for treating pregnant women and preventing HIV infection in infants [2012]
  • Report of the meeting of the paediatric working group developing an optimized list of paediatric ARV formulations [2012]
  • Programmatic update: use of antiretroviral drugs for treating pregnant women and preventing HIV infection in infants: executive summary [2012]
  • Measuring the impact of national PMTCT programmes: Towards the elimination of new HIV infections among children by 2015 and keeping their mothers alive [2012]
  • Male involvement in the prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV [2012]
  • Global monitoring framework and strategy for the Global Plan towards the elimination of new HIV infections among children by 2015 and keeping their mothers alive [2012]
  • Towards the elimination of mother-to-child transmission of HIV: report of a WHO technical consultation, 9-11 November 2010, Geneva, Switzerland [2011]
  • Meeting report: 2011 annual meeting of the interagency task team on prevention and treatment of HIV infection in pregnant women, mothers and their children [2011]
  • Guideline: vitamin A supplementation in pregnancy for reducing the risk of mother-to-child transmission of HIV [2011]
  • Annual meeting of the Interagency Task Team on Prevention and Treatment of HIV Infection in Pregnant Women, Mothers and their Children [2011]
  • Rapid advice: use of antiretroviral drugs for treating pregnant women and preventing HIV infection in infants. Version 2 [2010]
  • PMTCT strategic vision 2010-2015 : preventing mother-to-child transmission of HIV to reach the UNGASS and Millennium Development Goals : moving towards the elimination of paediatric HIV, December 2009 [2010]
  • Antiretroviral drugs for treating pregnant women and preventing HIV infection in infants. Recommendations for a public health approach. 2010 Revision [2010]
  • Rapid advice: revised WHO principles and recommendations on infant feeding in the context of HIV [2009]
  • Technical consultation on the integration of HIV interventions into maternal, newborn and child health services [2008]
  • Linkages between sexual and reproductive health (SRH) and HIV [2007]
  • Guidance on global scale-up of the prevention of mother to child transmission of HIV : towards universal access for women, infants and young children and eliminating HIV and AIDS among children [2007]
  • Antiretroviral drugs for treating pregnant women and preventing HIV infection in infants: towards universal access. Recommendations for a public health approach. 2006 Version [2006]
  • HIV and nutrition: pregnant and lactating women [2005]
  • Antiretroviral Drugs for Treating Pregnant Women and Preventing HIV Infection in Children: Guidelines for Women Living with HIV/AIDS and Their Children in Resource-Constrained Settings [2004]
  • HIV-infected women and their families: Psychosocial support and related issues [2003]
  • New data on the prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV and their policy implications [2001]
  • Mother-to-child transmission of HIV

Articles in journals

• British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology
  • Pharmacokinetics and therapeutic drug monitoring of antiretrovirals in pregnant women [2008]

• Bulletin of the World Health Organization
  • Integrating antiretroviral therapy into antenatal care and maternal and child health settings: a systematic review and meta-analysis [2013]
  • Country adaptation of the 2010 World Health Organization recommendations for the prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV [2012]
  • Prevention and Treatment of Human Immunodeficiency Virus/Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome in Resource-Limited Settings [2005]
  • Reconsidering empirical cotrimoxazole prophylaxis for infants exposed to HIV infection [2004]
  • Rates, barriers and outcomes of HIV serostatus disclosure among women in developing countries: implications for prevention of mother-to-child transmission programmes [2004]

• Canadian Medical Association Journal
  • Opt in or opt out: What is optimal for prenatal screening for HIV infection? [2003]

• Clinical Infectious Diseases
  • Prevention in Neglected Subpopulations: Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV Infection [2010]
  • Universal Antiretroviral Therapy for Pregnant and Breast-Feeding HIV-1-Infected Women: Towards the Elimination of Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV-1 in Resource-Limited Settings [2009]
  • Pregnancy and Optimal Care of HIV-Infected Patients [2009]

• Clinical Medicine & Research
  • Advances and Failures in Preventing Perinatal Human Immunodeficiency Virus Infection [2009]

• Current Opinion in HIV and AIDS
  • Use of antiretrovirals during pregnancy and breastfeeding in low-income and middle-income countries [2010]

• Current Opinion in Pediatrics
  • Update on successes and challenges regarding mother-to-child transmission of HIV [2009]

• Indian Journal of Dermatology, Venereology and Leprology
  • Prevention of mother-to-child transmission [2008]

• Infectious Diseases in Obstetrics and Gynecology
  • Pregnancy in HIV-Positive Patients: Effects on Vaginal Flora [2012]

• Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy
  • The safety of highly active antiretroviral therapy for the HIV-positive pregnant mother and her baby: is ‘the more the merrier’? [2009]

• Journal of Pharmacological Sciences
  • Role of placental ATP-binding cassette (ABC) transporters in antiretroviral therapy during pregnancy [2009]

• Journal of the International AIDS Society
  • Lessons learnt from promising practices in community engagement for the elimination of new HIV infections in children by 2015 and keeping their mothers alive: summary of a desk review [2012]
  • Involving fathers in prevention of mother to child transmission initiatives – what the evidence suggests [2012]
  • Community-based approaches for prevention of mother to child transmission in resource-poor settings: a social ecological review [2012]

• Life Sciences
  • Molecular mechanisms of HIV-1 mother-to-child transmission and infection in neonatal target cells [2011]
  • Drugs of abuse and HIV infection/replication: implications for mother-fetus transmission [2011]
  • Associations between use of crack cocaine and HIV-1 disease progression: research findings and implications for mother-to-infant transmission [2011]

• Medical Journal of Australia
  • The evidence for a change in antenatal HIV screening policy in Australia [2006]
  • The time to recommend antenatal HIV screening for all pregnant women has arrived [2004]

• Mutation Research/Reviews in Mutation Research
  • Relevance of experimental models for investigation of genotoxicity induced by antiretroviral therapy during human pregnancy [2008]

• PLoS ONE
  • Integrating Prevention of Mother-to-Child HIV Transmission Programs to Improve Uptake: A Systematic Review [2012]

• Revista do Hospital das Clinicas
  • HIV-1: maternal prognosis [2004]

• Tropical Medicine & International Health
  • Universal voluntary HIV testing in antenatal care settings: a review of the contribution of provider-initiated testing & counselling [2012]

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  • HIV/AIDS