[Analysis of a group of HIV positive women who gave birth in the Czech Republic].

Objective: An analysis of HIV positive women who gave birth between 1st January 1985 to 31st December 2006 in the Czech Republic.

Subject: A retrospective descriptive analysis.

Setting: Teaching Hospital Bulovka, 1st Faculty of Medicine, Charles University, Prague.

Subject And Methods: The study included HIV positive women that gave birth between 1st January 1985 to 31st December 2006 at Bulovka hospital. The group of 62 HIV positive women (including 7 secundiparae) gave birth to 71 new-borns (twice twins). The deliveries were performed by C-section. We interrupted breast-feeding by all these women.

Results: All new-borns were born alive, no one had Apgar score less than 7 at five minutes. No congenital disorders were found. Three new-borns were transfered to Intensive care unit for new-born babies, two due to dysmaturity and one due to abstinence syndrome. 3 new-borns out of total 71 new-borns were HIV positive (4.2%).

Conclusion: Routine prenatal screening for HIV and high-quality cooperation between obstetricians and infection control doctors are the basic condition of low rate of vertical trasmission HIV infection in the Czech Republic.