Which are the major routes of transmission of HIV from mother to unborn baby? Ho

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Which are the major routes of transmission of HIV from mother to unborn baby?

How can we prevent the Transmission of HIV from Mother to Baby?

In which of the body fluids concentrations of HIV are greater?

What about the unique situation in the case of infectious diseases, which do not even have a single reported case in scientific literature such as a health care worker who contracted AIDS from a patient or a scientist who contracted AIDS from the "AIDS virus" or from other microbes from AIDS patients, which are propagated in hundreds of research laboratories and companies?

Explanation / Answer

Transmission mainly occur by vertical transmission,mainly during time of the child birth, because of blood of foetus coming in contact with mother, or due to maternal secretion transfer to foetus, transmission also occur by the placenta, and at time of breast feeding via cracked nipples.

Prevention of mother to child transmission (pmtct),

Its mainly by starting anti retroviral drugs to the mother as soon as the hiv detected in the mother, and after birth of baby anti hiv drugs must be started within 12 week of child birth.

Hiv is mainly concentrated in high amount in the blood of the mother, but its also present in vaginal secretions, & fluid secreted at time of vaginal delivery, they also contain high concentration of hiv virus.

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