Pencegahan dan Penatalaksanaan Infeksi HIV/AIDS Pada Kehamilan

• Main Authors: Donel Suhaimi, Maya Savira, Sofie R. Krisnadi
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Universitas Padjajaran 2009-06-01
• Series: Majalah Kedokteran Bandung
• Subjects: AIDS; HAART; MTCT
• Online Access: http://journal.fk.unpad.ac.id/index.php/mkb/article/view/184

Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) is a disease which caused by human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). Characteristic of AIDS is due to severe immunosupresive disease which related to opportunistic infection, malignant tumour and central nervous system degeneration. HIV spread widely and mostly infect women and children. Mortality rate of AIDS are more than 20 million people per year. In 2003, 700,000 newborn were infected by HIV in the world. Morbidity and mortality rate of HIV are highly increase dan become an important public health problem in all around the world. Using of antiviral drugs like highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) and ceasarean labor has decreased the perinatal transmission (mother-to-child trasmission=MTCT) rate of this disease from 30% to 20%. The intensive control in management of antenatal care, labor and delivery for the pregnant women with HIV can prevent the perinatal transmission.