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Pan Afr Med J    

Under-two child mortality according to maternal HIV status in Rwanda: assessing outcomes within the National PMTCT Program.

Mugwaneza P, Umutoni NW, Ruton H, Rukundo A, Lyambabaje A, Bizimana Jde D, Tsague L, Wagner CM, Nyankesha E, Muita J, Mutabazi V, Nyemazi JP, Nsanzimana S, Karema C, Binagwaho A

Center for Treatment and Research on AIDS, Malaria, Tuberculosis and Other Epidemics, Kigali, Rwanda.

We sought to compare risk of death among children aged under-2 years born to HIV positive mother (HIV-exposed) and to HIV negative mother (HIV non-exp... Read More

Source: PubMed

Infect Dis Obstet Gynecol    

Are Dual-Method Messages Undermining STI/HIV Prevention?

O'Leary A

Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention, National Center for HIV, Hepatitis, Sexually Transmitted Diseases, and Tuberculosis Prevention, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1600 Clifton Road, MS E-37, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA.

Adolescent girls and young women who are at risk for unplanned pregnancy and sexually transmitted infection (STI), including HIV, are frequently couns... Read More

Source: PubMed

  2011 Dec 4  

Pregnancy outcomes in adolescents in the UK and Ireland growing up with HIV.

Kenny J, Williams B, Prime K, Tookey P, Foster C

HIV in Young People Network (HYPNet), London, UK; Department of Infectious Diseases and Microbiology, UCL Institute of Child Health, London, UK.

OBJECTIVES: Adolescents with HIV infection acquired perinatally or in early childhood are becoming sexually active, but little is known about fertilit... Read More

Source: PubMed

J Pregnancy    

Tuberculosis in pregnancy: a review.

Loto OM, Awowole I

Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospital, P.M.B. 5538, Ile-Ife, Osun State, Nigeria.

Tuberculosis (TB) was declared a public health emergency by WHO in 2005. The disease is a significant contributor to maternal mortality and is among t... Read More

Source: PubMed

  2011 Nov 30  

Effect of pregnancy on emtricitabine pharmacokinetics.

Stek A, Best B, Luo W, Capparelli E, Burchett S, Hu C, Li H, Read J, Jennings A, Barr E, Smith E, Rossi S, Mirochnick M

Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Southern California School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA, USA.

OBJECTIVES: The aim of the study was to describe emtricitabine pharmacokinetics during pregnancy and postpartum. METHODS: The International Maternal P... Read More

Source: PubMed

    

Mother-to-child transmission of Human Immunodeficiency Virus in a ten years period.

Delicio AM, Milanez H, Amaral E, Morais SS, Lajos GJ, Pinto E Silva JL, Cecatti JG

ABSTRACT: Objectives: to evaluate mother-to-child transmission (MTCT) rates and related factors in HIV-infected pregnant women from a tertiary hospita... Read More

Source: PubMed

AIDS    

Extended antenatal use of triple antiretroviral therapy for prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV-1 correlates with favorable pregnancy outcomes.

Shapiro RL, Ribaudo H, Powis K, Chen J, Parekh N

aDivision of Infectious Diseases, Beth Israel Deaconess, Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA bHarvard School of Public Health, Department of Biostatistics, Boston, MA, USA cDepartments of Medicine and Pediatrics, Massachusetts, General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA dDepartment of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA eDepartment of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh,Pittsburgh, PA, USA.

... Read More

Source: PubMed

  2011 Nov 28  

Pregnancy-Related effects on Tenofovir Pharmacokinetics: A Population Study with 186 women.

Benaboud S, Hirt D, Launay O, Pannier E, Firtion G, Rey E, Bouazza N, Foissac F, Chappuy H, Urien S, Tréluyer JM

Université Paris Descartes, EA3620, Paris, France.

According to The European AIDS Clinical Society (EACS), Tenofovir Disoproxil Fumarate (TDF) can be used in HIV-infected pregnant women if started prio... Read More

Source: PubMed

  2011 Nov 26  

Combined blood purification for treating acute fatty liver of pregnancy complicated by acute kidney injury: a case series.

Tang WX, Huang ZY, Chen ZJ, Cui TL, Zhang L, Fu P

Division of Nephrology, West China Hospital of Sichuan University, Chengdu, China.

Acute fatty liver of pregnancy (AFLP) complicated by acute kidney injury (AKI) is serious and life-threatening for the mother. The present study aimed... Read More

Source: PubMed

  2011 Nov 21  

High prevalence of unintended pregnancies in HIV-positive women of reproductive age in Ontario, Canada: a retrospective study.

Loutfy M, Raboud J, Wong J, Yudin M, Diong C, Blitz S, Margolese S, Hart T, Ogilvie G, Masinde K, Tharao W, Linklater G, Salam K, Ongoiba F, Angel J, Smaill F, Rachlis A, Ralph E, Walmsley S

Women's College Research Institute, Women's College Hospital, Toronto, Ontario Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Ontario University Health Network, Toronto, Ontario Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, St Michael's Hospital, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario Department of Psychology, Ryerson University, Toronto, Ontario Division of STI/HIV Prevention and Control, BC Centre for Disease Control, Vancouver, British Columbia Department of Family Practice, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia Women's Health in Women's Hands, Toronto, Ontario AIDS Thunder Bay, Thunder Bay, Ontario AIDS Committee of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario Africans in Partnership Against AIDS, Toronto, Ontario Ottawa Hospital Research Institute and The Ottawa Hospital, Ottawa, Ontario Department of Pathology and Molecular Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, University of Toronto, Toronto Ontario Infectious Diseases Care Program, St. Joseph's Health Care, London, Ontario, Canada.

OBJECTIVES: There is speculation, but there are few data, on the high rates of unintended pregnancies in HIV-positive women. We investigated rates and... Read More

Source: PubMed

Pan Afr Med J    

Under-two child mortality according to maternal HIV status in Rwanda: assessing outcomes within the National PMTCT Program.

Mugwaneza P, Umutoni NW, Ruton H, Rukundo A, Lyambabaje A, Bizimana Jde D, Tsague L, Wagner CM, Nyankesha E, Muita J, Mutabazi V, Nyemazi JP, Nsanzimana S, Karema C, Binagwaho A

Center for Treatment and Research on AIDS, Malaria, Tuberculosis and Other Epidemics, Kigali, Rwanda.

We sought to compare risk of death among children aged under-2 years born to HIV positive mother (HIV-exposed) and to HIV negative mother (HIV non-exp... Read More

Source: PubMed

Infect Dis Obstet Gynecol    

Are Dual-Method Messages Undermining STI/HIV Prevention?

O'Leary A

Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention, National Center for HIV, Hepatitis, Sexually Transmitted Diseases, and Tuberculosis Prevention, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1600 Clifton Road, MS E-37, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA.

Adolescent girls and young women who are at risk for unplanned pregnancy and sexually transmitted infection (STI), including HIV, are frequently couns... Read More

Source: PubMed

  2011 Dec 4  

Pregnancy outcomes in adolescents in the UK and Ireland growing up with HIV.

Kenny J, Williams B, Prime K, Tookey P, Foster C

HIV in Young People Network (HYPNet), London, UK; Department of Infectious Diseases and Microbiology, UCL Institute of Child Health, London, UK.

OBJECTIVES: Adolescents with HIV infection acquired perinatally or in early childhood are becoming sexually active, but little is known about fertilit... Read More

Source: PubMed

J Pregnancy    

Tuberculosis in pregnancy: a review.

Loto OM, Awowole I

Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospital, P.M.B. 5538, Ile-Ife, Osun State, Nigeria.

Tuberculosis (TB) was declared a public health emergency by WHO in 2005. The disease is a significant contributor to maternal mortality and is among t... Read More

Source: PubMed

  2011 Nov 30  

Effect of pregnancy on emtricitabine pharmacokinetics.

Stek A, Best B, Luo W, Capparelli E, Burchett S, Hu C, Li H, Read J, Jennings A, Barr E, Smith E, Rossi S, Mirochnick M

Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Southern California School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA, USA.

OBJECTIVES: The aim of the study was to describe emtricitabine pharmacokinetics during pregnancy and postpartum. METHODS: The International Maternal P... Read More

Source: PubMed

    

Mother-to-child transmission of Human Immunodeficiency Virus in a ten years period.

Delicio AM, Milanez H, Amaral E, Morais SS, Lajos GJ, Pinto E Silva JL, Cecatti JG

ABSTRACT: Objectives: to evaluate mother-to-child transmission (MTCT) rates and related factors in HIV-infected pregnant women from a tertiary hospita... Read More

Source: PubMed

AIDS    

Extended antenatal use of triple antiretroviral therapy for prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV-1 correlates with favorable pregnancy outcomes.

Shapiro RL, Ribaudo H, Powis K, Chen J, Parekh N

aDivision of Infectious Diseases, Beth Israel Deaconess, Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA bHarvard School of Public Health, Department of Biostatistics, Boston, MA, USA cDepartments of Medicine and Pediatrics, Massachusetts, General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA dDepartment of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, MA, USA eDepartment of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh,Pittsburgh, PA, USA.

... Read More

Source: PubMed

  2011 Nov 28  

Pregnancy-Related effects on Tenofovir Pharmacokinetics: A Population Study with 186 women.

Benaboud S, Hirt D, Launay O, Pannier E, Firtion G, Rey E, Bouazza N, Foissac F, Chappuy H, Urien S, Tréluyer JM

Université Paris Descartes, EA3620, Paris, France.

According to The European AIDS Clinical Society (EACS), Tenofovir Disoproxil Fumarate (TDF) can be used in HIV-infected pregnant women if started prio... Read More

Source: PubMed

  2011 Nov 26  

Combined blood purification for treating acute fatty liver of pregnancy complicated by acute kidney injury: a case series.

Tang WX, Huang ZY, Chen ZJ, Cui TL, Zhang L, Fu P

Division of Nephrology, West China Hospital of Sichuan University, Chengdu, China.

Acute fatty liver of pregnancy (AFLP) complicated by acute kidney injury (AKI) is serious and life-threatening for the mother. The present study aimed... Read More

Source: PubMed

  2011 Nov 21  

High prevalence of unintended pregnancies in HIV-positive women of reproductive age in Ontario, Canada: a retrospective study.

Loutfy M, Raboud J, Wong J, Yudin M, Diong C, Blitz S, Margolese S, Hart T, Ogilvie G, Masinde K, Tharao W, Linklater G, Salam K, Ongoiba F, Angel J, Smaill F, Rachlis A, Ralph E, Walmsley S

Women's College Research Institute, Women's College Hospital, Toronto, Ontario Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Ontario University Health Network, Toronto, Ontario Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, St Michael's Hospital, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario Department of Psychology, Ryerson University, Toronto, Ontario Division of STI/HIV Prevention and Control, BC Centre for Disease Control, Vancouver, British Columbia Department of Family Practice, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia Women's Health in Women's Hands, Toronto, Ontario AIDS Thunder Bay, Thunder Bay, Ontario AIDS Committee of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario Africans in Partnership Against AIDS, Toronto, Ontario Ottawa Hospital Research Institute and The Ottawa Hospital, Ottawa, Ontario Department of Pathology and Molecular Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, University of Toronto, Toronto Ontario Infectious Diseases Care Program, St. Joseph's Health Care, London, Ontario, Canada.

OBJECTIVES: There is speculation, but there are few data, on the high rates of unintended pregnancies in HIV-positive women. We investigated rates and... Read More

Source: PubMed


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