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Prevention of mother-to-child transmission
Treatment with a ritonavir-boosted protease inhibitor during pregnancy increases risk of preterm delivery

Antiretroviral therapy during pregnancy is associated with an increased risk of premature delivery, French researchers report in Clinical Infectious Diseases. The large study showed that treatment with a

Published
10 April 2012
By
Michael Carter
Child developmental issues
Tenofovir use during pregnancy doesn't affect infant size or weight at birth, but may by one year of age

Use of tenofovir during pregnancy does not have an adverse impact on infant weight or size at birth, according to a large US study published in the

Published
03 April 2012
By
Michael Carter
Side-effects
Severe nevirapine rash linked to slow clearance of drug

The risk of severe rash when taking the antiretroviral drug nevirapine is greater in women who clear the drug from their bloodstreams slowly, and clearance of the drug

Published
20 February 2012
By
Carole Leach-Lemens
Treatment for women
UK guidelines on treatment of HIV in pregnancy give green light to efavirenz

New UK draft guidelines on the management of HIV infection in pregnant women recommend that efavirenz-based treatment should no longer be avoided in pregnant women or women who

Published
17 February 2012
By
Keith Alcorn
Bone problems
HIV Worsens Bone Loss After Menopause

Compared to a control group, postmenopausal women with HIV infection had higher rates of bone loss and could well have a higher risk for fracture as they age, according to the researchers who conducted the study.

Published
03 January 2012
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PrEP
Tenofovir PrEP arm dropped in women's HIV prevention trial

A major HIV prevention trial comparing a tenofovir microbicide with two forms of oral pre-exposure prophylaxis as HIV prevention methods for women is to halt investigation of

Published
29 September 2011
By
Keith Alcorn
Treatment for women
Over half of pregnant UK women with HIV present late for antenatal care

Women in the UK who have HIV (previously diagnosed or not) are more than twice as likely to present late for antenatal care than HIV-negative women, a survey

Published
15 September 2011
By
Gus Cairns
Prevention of mother-to-child transmission
Pre-term delivery in mothers receiving HIV treatment: more research needed before changing guidelines

HIV-infected pregnant women on a protease-inhibitor (PI) triple antiretroviral regimen were twice as likely to have a preterm delivery compared to those on a triple nucleoside reverse transcriptase

Published
16 August 2011
By
Carole Leach-Lemens
Prevention of mother-to-child transmission
Zambian study shows importance of early HIV test and fast ART for pregnant women

Starting ART at least 13 weeks before giving birth provides the greatest benefits in prevention of mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT), Carla J Chibwesha and colleagues reported in a retrospective

Published
15 July 2011
By
Carole Leach-Lemens
Treatment for women
Triple ART reduces maternal death, premature and still birth, Mozambique / Malawi study shows

Women in Malawi and Mozambique on triple ART for three months or longer before giving birth were thirteen times less likely to die than women with no

Published
12 July 2011
By
Carole Leach-Lemens
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