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Original Article
Ten years of experience in the prevention of mother-to-child human immunodeficiency virus transmission in a university teaching hospital
Jung-Weon Park, Tae-Whan Yang, Yun-Kyung Kim, Byung-Min Choi, Hai-Joong Kim, Dae-Won Park
Clin Exp Pediatr. 2014;57(3):117-124.   Published online March 31, 2014
Purpose

Administration of antiretroviral drugs to mothers and infants significantly decreases mother-to-child human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) transmission; cesarean sections and discouraging breastfeeding further decreases this risk. The present study confirmed the HIV status of babies born to mothers infected with HIV and describes the characteristics of babies and mothers who received preventive treatment.

Methods

This study retrospectively analyzed medical records of nine infants...