"HIV and Women and Pregnancy" we believe is along overdue issue, and fills the viod of reviews and books concerning HIV and AIDS. At least 10% of all AIDS cases worldwide occur
in children who acquire the disease from mothers before, during, or after birth. Why more then a quarter of a children born to HIV-infected mothers untreated with antiretrovirals acquire the disease is a wonder, given the 9 month gestation period and numerous
exposures to the maternal blood before and after birth. This paradox is as much of a mystery as the absence of
immunologic rejection in a pregnancy in which the mother and infant have a disparate human leukocyte antigen matching. This issue attempts to address…
