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Perinatal
HIV Screening:
Efforts to Monitor Trends, Improve Provider Capacity,
and Reduce Transmission
Wednesday, April 21, 2004
Overview
This DataSpeak program will provide an overview of Federal and State efforts
to conduct HIV screening for all pregnant women. In particular, the program
will focus on the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC)
HIV Prevention Initiative, which was launched in April 2003. The Initiative
strives to make screening part of the standard battery of tests for pregnant
women to further efforts to eliminate perinatal HIV transmission in the United
States.
During the program, officials from the CDC’s Divisions of HIV/AIDS
Prevention will discuss available data on perinatal HIV testing and highlight
HIV screening rates during pregnancy and at labor and delivery. They will
also present information on enhanced perinatal counseling and testing guidelines,
issues associated with surveillance data, and rapid testing in labor and
delivery. Officials from high and low HIV prevalence states will describe
how partnerships created between Title V Maternal and Child Health Block
Grant and State HIV/AIDS offices have enhanced efforts to reach women and
their providers. An opportunity to pose questions to presenters will be
included.
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