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Review
. 2011 Oct;29(8):615-25.
doi: 10.1016/j.eimc.2011.05.006. Epub 2011 Aug 4.

[Prevention of HIV transmission (vertical, occupational and non-occupational)]

[Article in Spanish]
Harkaitz Azkune  1 , Maialen Ibarguren, Xabier Camino, José Antonio Iribarren
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[Prevention of HIV transmission (vertical, occupational and non-occupational)]

[Article in Spanish]
Harkaitz Azkune et al. Enferm Infecc Microbiol Clin. 2011 Oct.

Abstract

In these almost thirty years since the epidemic of HIV infection strategies have been developed to decrease the transmission risk when a non-infected person comes into contact with HIV. One of the key landmarks was the use zidovudine was shown to reduce the risk of HIV infection by vertical transmission from 25% to 8% when given from the second trimester of pregnancy, during partum and for several weeks in the newborn. These strategies have been subsequently perfected until achieving vertical transmission rates less than 1%. Almost at the same time, strategies have been developed in an attempt to reduce the risk of transmission of infection after occupational accidents and, in the last few years prophylaxis after non-occupational exposure has been a field of particular concern. Even in this past year several experiments on pre-exposure prophylaxis have been published, which are generating an intense debate on is applicability. In this article, we analyse the state of the art in the prevention of vertical transmission and occupational and non-occupational prophylaxis, from a perspective of applying this in the developed world. We also review the published data on pre-exposure prophylaxis.

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