A five-year review of vertical HIV transmission in a specialized service: cross-sectional study.

Context And Objective:: Healthcare professionals need to instill the process of prevention, control and treatment of people infected with HIV into care practice. Through maintaining preventive treatment among HIV-infected pregnant women, it has been demonstrated that prophylactic antiretroviral therapy, scheduled cesarean section and the prohibition of breastfeeding significantly reduce vertical HIV transmission. This study aimed to assess the rates of vertical HIV transmission in a specialized service and identify the factors associated with it.

[The effects of infertility on the spouses' relationship].

The present study investigated the effects of infertility on the spouses' relationship, with the objectives to describe the profile of the studied population, and analyze the effects of infertility on their emotional, sexual and marital life. To do this, a cross-sectional and prospective study was performed in a specialist institution. The sample consisted of 50 infertile couples with a mean of six years of infertility.

Clinical and epidemiological aspects of prematurity in a Normal Delivery Center, São Paulo, Brazil.

Objective: To present clinical and epidemiological aspects of prematurity in a Normal Delivery Center, and to describe outcomes.

Methods: A cross-sectional retrospective study, with 189 medical records of premature, single, and living fetuses, with gestational ages between 25 and 36.6 weeks.

[Maternal complications and neonatal events associated to multiple pregnancies resulting from assisted reproduction techniques].

Multiple pregnancy is the most frequent and serious iatrogenic complication of the assisted reproduction techniques. The purpose of this study was to know the maternal complications and neonatal events associated to multiple pregnancies, resulting from assisted reproduction in a reference center in the field of assisted reproduction. This was an observational, cross-section, descriptive and retrospective study performed at Hospital e Maternidade Santa Joana, a reference center in the area of human reproduction in the city of São Paulo, Brazil.