@article{efaa8b36c0ab44dbb01550c74b8a2d54,
title = "Prompt Initiation of Maternal Antiretroviral Therapy After HIV Seroconversion in Pregnancy Effectively Prevents Vertical Transmission and Other Adverse Infant Outcomes",
abstract = "From January 2008 to December 2018, 1348 HIV-exposed infants were born in Porto Alegre, Brazil; 18.8\% had adverse infant outcomes (AIO) including vertical transmission (1.9\%), stillbirth/neonatal death (4.0\%) and loss to follow-up before HIV diagnosis (12.9\%). Timing of maternal HIV diagnosis was not associated with AIO but absent antiretroviral therapy use was. Lack of maternal antiretroviral therapy use is a significant risk factor for AIO.",
keywords = "HIV in pregnancy, HIV vertical transmission, adverse infant outcomes, antiretroviral therapy in pregnancy, maternal HIV seroconversion",
author = "Sundar, \{Kavya G.\} and Yang, \{Lanbo Z.\} and Cambou, \{Mary C.\} and Varella, \{Ivana R.S.\} and Melo, \{Marineide G.\} and Segura, \{Eddy R.\} and Ziegler, \{{\^A}ngela P.\} and Santos, \{Breno R.\} and Karin Nielsen-Saines",
note = "Publisher Copyright: Copyright {\textcopyright} 2024 Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc. All rights reserved.",
year = "2025",
month = jan,
day = "1",
doi = "10.1097/INF.0000000000004562",
language = "Ingl{\'e}s",
volume = "44",
pages = "40--43",
journal = "Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal",
issn = "0891-3668",
publisher = "Lippincott Williams and Wilkins",
number = "1",
}