April 9, 1999
Caesarean Sections Reduce HIV in Babies
Physicians can reduce the transmission of the human immunodeficiency virus from mothers to children by delivering babies by Caesarean section before labor starts, an international team of researchers has found.
The rate of infection is lower among children delivered by Caesarean section even when the mother is taking the drug AZT, which has also been found to reduce the mother-to-child transmission of
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