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Over the past 15 years, human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection has become a major cause of illness and death in young children. Each year approximately 7000 HIV-infected women give birth in the United States; 1000 to 2000 of their infants are infected with HIV.¹ HIV infection is now the seventh leading cause of death in children one to four years of age in the United States.² The World Health Organization estimates that over 1 million children are infected worldwide.³ These grim statistics emphasize the need for effective interventions to prevent the transmission of HIV from mother to child.

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• Landers, D. V., Sweet, R. L. (1996). Reducing Mother-to-Infant Transmission of HIV -- The Door Remains Open. NEJM 334: 1664-1665 [Full Text]  
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