After a slow start, Britain seems to have caught up with other countries in
its efforts to prevent babies being born with HIV. In 1993, 19.6 per cent of
babies born to HIV-positive women in Britain became infected. But by 1998, the
figure was just 2.2 per cent, researchers at the Institute of Child Health in
London report in the British Medical Journal (vol 319, p 1227). The
fall in infections is due to the use of antiviral drugs in late pregnancy,
caesarean sections and mothers avoiding breast feeding.
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