Science / Medicine : Hope for Preventing AIDS in Infants
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
Ten years into the AIDS epidemic, federal scientists say they have a first glimmer of hope for preventing transmission of the human immunodeficiency virus from mothers to their children.
In studies of twins born to HIV-infected mothers, researchers at the National Cancer Institute found that most of those who became infected did so during birth, rather than in the uterus. “This finding suggests that we may be able to develop methods of preventing HIV transmission from mother to child,” said senior institute researcher Dr. James Goedert.
