HIV/AIDS and Pregnancy Summary If you have HIV/AIDS and find out you are pregnant or think you may be pregnant, you should let your health care provider know as soon as possible. Some HIV/AIDS medicines may harm your baby. Your health care provider may want you to take different medicines or change the doses. It is also possible to give HIV to your baby. This is most likely to happen around the time you give birth. For this reason, treatment during this time is very important for protecting your baby from infection. Several treatments may prevent the virus from spreading from you to your baby. Your health care provider can recommend the best one for you. Your baby will also need to have treatment for at least the first six weeks of life. Regular testing will be needed to find out if your baby is infected. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Find an Expert AIDS.gov AIDS.gov AIDSinfo Department of Health and Human Services Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Centers for Disease Control and Prevention NIAID Division of Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Reference Desk AIDSinfo Glossary AIDSinfo Children Children and HIV AIDS.gov Children and HIV New Mexico AIDS Education and Training Center Clinical Trials ClinicalTrials.gov: HIV/AIDS and Pregnancy National Institutes of Health Related Issues Having Children AIDS.gov Preventing Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV during Childbirth AIDSinfo Statistics and Research HIV among Pregnant Women, Infants, and Children Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Start Here HIV and Pregnancy American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists Pregnancy and Childbirth AIDS.gov Pregnancy and HIV New Mexico AIDS Education and Training Center Videos and Tutorials Preventing the Spread of HIV – Mother-to-Child Healthy Roads Media Journal Articles HIV/AIDS and Pregnancy NIH MedlinePlus Magazine Toddler “Functionally Cured” of HIV Infection
