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Date Posted: 20:29:46 07/24/02 Wed
Author: moonotter
Subject: Italian Group Reports Successful IVF Outcome For HIV-Infected Parents

Italian Group Reports Successful IVF Outcome For HIV-Infected Parents




By Deborah Mitchell
BARCELONA, Spain (Reuters Health) Jul 11 - Five hundred healthy infants have been born to HIV-positive parents in Europe over the past 14 years through in vitro fertilization (IVF), an Italian researcher said at the XIV International AIDS Conference here this week.

Dr. Enrico Semprini, from the University of Milan, told Reuters Health that 5000 cycles of IVF had been performed for couples in which at least one partner was HIV-positive. The oldest child born by this technique is already 14 years old, the Italian researcher said during a symposium organized by the Catalonian regional government.

For couples in which the man was seropositive, no cases of infected infants have occurred Dr. Semprini said.

For couple in which the women is seropositive, there is a 0% to 2% risk that the infant will be infected if the woman receives appropriate care. This includes optimal antiretroviral therapy and delivery by Cesarean section, Dr. Semprini said.

Dr. Anne Duerr, who studies HIV at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), told Reuters Health there has not been enough data to recommend offering IVF to seropositive people.

"We do not have complete follow-up. When we have it, then we can use the data from Dr. Semprini's team," she told Reuters Health.




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