Studies say doctors are lax in assisting pregnant women. Clearinghouse, P.O. Box 6003, Rockville, MD 20849-6003. The state of the art may have changed since the publication date.
Studies say doctors are lax in assisting pregnant women.
Clearinghouse, P.O. Box 6003, Rockville, MD 20849-6003. AIDS Policy Law. In two recent studies, less than half of the doctors surveyed were aware that prescribing the antiviral drug AZT during pregnancy, labor, and childbirth, could reduce by two-thirds the risk of HIV transmission to the infant. The results are alarming because research on the benefits of AZT therapy in pregnancy has been widely disseminated since August. Most physicians, however, seem to regard HIV counseling as too complicated or too touchy a subject to address.