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. 1994;2(2):76–82. doi: 10.1155/S1064744994000438

Human Immunodeficiency Virus Infection and Pregnancy

Richard H Schwarz 1,✉
PMCID: PMC2364368  PMID: 18475370

Abstract

The human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) epidemic is clearly one of the most serious health-care crises in the professional lives of contemporary physicians. It cannot be regarded as a curiosity to be dealt with by inner-city infectious-disease experts, but rather must be considered a problem for all health-care providers and a problem in which the obstetrician-gynecologist has a special role to play.

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