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The nurse is instructing a group of women of childbearing age about human immunodeficiency virus (hiv) during pregnancy. The priority recommendation in this setting a test for HIV.
Although there is no official HIV screening requirement, all expectant women should be urged to get tested. Only after the woman has been screened would a preventative treatment be started.
Health promotion for women in this age range also includes STI screening and maintaining good nutrition, although detecting HIV-positive people comes first.HIV specialists, obstetricians, paediatricians, and social service providers should all work together to treat pregnant HIV-positive patients.
In the industrialised world, all pregnant women receive combination antiretroviral therapy (at least three medications), which is the recommended course of treatment regardless of CD4 level or HIV viral load.
Contrary to single drug therapy or shorter course medication, combination antiretroviral therapy and antepartum antiretroviral therapy are more successful at reducing perinatal transmission.
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