Strategy choices in HIV-infected pregnant women | ICRH

TEAM MEMBERS 

PERIOD 

PARTNERS

• ICRH, University of Ghent, Belgium
• ICRH, Mombasa, Kenya

OBJECTIVES

• to determine the cost-benefit of HAART in mother-to-child-transmission of HIV
• to develop new methods to determine viral parameters

METHODS

• haematological analysis
• Real time RT-PCR

ACTIVITIES

• correlation between CD4 count/clinical stage and the transmission risc
• correlation between haematology and the transmission risc
• development of an affordable in-house real time RT-PCR method for HIV detection and viral load estimation

EXPECTED RESULTS

• determination of paramaters van HIV transmission
• implementation of an in-house RT-PCR HIV detection and viral load determination method