Medical and social characteristics of health in HIV-positive pregnant women and their children
Abstract
The authors conducted medical and statistical analysis medical history sheets of in-patient departments and medical records of acts of delivery of 280 HIV-positive pregnant women, and 280 medical history sheets of their newborns, and showed that social status of HIV-infected women was more often negative characterised by multiple somatic, gynaecological and chronic infectious pathology. The infants born by these women retarded in physical and neuropsychic development and had various somatic pathologies. These data confirm the social aspect of this problem that requires to be solved at the State level.
About the Authors
V. N. Rasskazova
Vladivostok State Medical University
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
V. N. Luchaninova
Vladivostok State Medical University
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
V. Ya. Krivelevich
Vladivostok State Medical University; Medical and Diagnostic Center “Metchnikoff”, Vladivostok
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
M. E. Rasskazova
Vladivostok State Medical University
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
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Rasskazova V.N., Luchaninova V.N., Krivelevich V.Ya., Rasskazova M.E. Medical and social characteristics of health in HIV-positive pregnant women and their children. Pacific Medical Journal. 2011;(3):32-33. (In Russ.)
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