Hotlines
Fact Sheets
Slides
Reports
Guidelines and Recommendations
Other Documents

Hotlines:

• National Perinatal HIV Consultation and Referral Service (Perinatal Hotline)
  1-888-448-8765
  24 Hours/Day
  www.ucsf.edu/hivcntr/Hotlines/Perinatal.html
  The Perinatal Hotline provides around-the-clock advice on indications and interpretations of standard and rapid HIV testing in pregnancy as well as consultation on antiretroviral use in pregnancy, labor and delivery, and the postpartum period. The Perinatal HIV Consultation and Referral Service also links HIV-infected pregnant women with appropriate health care.

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Fact Sheets:

• Reducing HIV Transmission From Mother-to-Child: An Opt-Out Approach to HIV Screening
• Mother-to-Child (Perinatal) HIV Transmission and Prevention

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Slides

• Pediatric HIV/AIDS Surveillance
• Additional Perinatal Slide Sets (Available from Grantee Meetings)

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Reports:

• HIV/AIDS Surveillance Supplemental Report: Enhanced Perinatal Surveillance—Participating Areas in the United States and Dependent Areas, 2000–2003
• MMWR: HIV Testing Among Pregnant Women, United States and Canada, 1998—2001
• Institute of Medicine Report: "Reducing the Odds"

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Guidelines and Recommendations

• MMWR: Revised Recommendations for HIV Testing of Adults, Adolescents, and Pregnant Women in Health–Care Settings
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• Rapid HIV-1 Antibody Testing during Labor and Delivery for Women of Unknown HIV Status: A Practical Guide and Model Protocol
• Recommendations to Improve Preconception Health and Health Care — United States: A Report of the CDC/ATSDR Preconception Care Work Group and the Select Panel on Preconception Care
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• Public Health Service Task Force Recommendations for the Use of Antiretroviral Drugs in Pregnant HIV-1 Infected Women for Maternal Health and Interventions to Reduce Perinatal HIV-1 Transmission in the United States (The Living Document)
• Guidelines for the Use of Antiretroviral Agents in Pediatric HIV Infection (The Living Document)
• Guidelines for the Use of Antiretroviral Agents in HIV-Infected Adults and Adolescents (The Living Document)
• USPHS/IDSA Guidelines for the Prevention of Opportunistic Infections in Persons Infected with Human Immunodeficiency Virus (The Living Document)

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Other Documents:

• CDC “Dear Colleague” Letter of April 22, 2003
  CDC recommends that HIV testing be a routine screening procedure and also recommends implementing rapid HIV testing in postnatal settings for infants of women not tested prenatally.

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