When Pregnant Patients Are Unsure About HIV Screening [2008]

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• Corporate Authors:
  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.)
• Description:
  This provider sheet provides information about important perinatal HIV prevention and treatment information from federal/public health agencies and professional associations for the clinicians and their patients. ; Every infant infected with HIV through vertical transmission represents a sentinel health event that signals either a missed prevention opportunity, or, more rarely, a failure of prophylaxis. ; Explain to your patient that you are not singling her out. Assure her that HIV testing is an important part of routine prenatal care in your practice. ; CDC-INFO 999822 ; ottl_factsheet.pdf
• Subjects:
  • AIDS Serodiagnosis
  • HIV Infections/diagnosis
  • Infant, Newborn
  • Infectious Disease Transmission, Vertical/prevention & control
  • Mass Screening
  • Pregnancy
  • Pregnancy Complications, Infectious/prevention & control
  • Prenatal Diagnosis
• Series:
  One test. Two lives.
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Fact Sheet
• Pages in Document:
  2 unnumbered pages
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/42250/cdc_42250_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 146.32 KB]
• Collection(s):
  Stephen B. Thacker CDC Library
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:84890303365e35885ad5f7c08d702603c79055bec02d40c374c25adfef25a317c433e254c81554986aca40043fd411fa1b17ddd721af35905dea9ecf122d3019