COMMENTARY: Routine Screening for HIV Infection in Booked Antenatal Women: How Justified in Developing Countries?

Abstract

Infection with the human immune deficiency virus (HIV) has become a pandemic and has posed a great health problem both in developed and developing countries. According to a report published by the United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS and the World Health Organization, at the end of the year 2002, an estimated 36.1 million of the world’s children and adults aged 15-49 years were living with HIV or AIDS.