|HIV Screening for Pregnant Women||Percentage of pregnant women
who were screened for HIV infection during the first or second
prenatal care visit||Number of women from the denominator who
were screened for HIV infection during the first or second
prenatal care visit||All patients seen for two prenatal visits
during the measurement year||AMA| |National Quality Forum| Human
Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) and Acquired Immune Deficiency
Syndrome (AIDS) are leading causes of illness and death in the
United States and only 40 percent of the United States
population has been tested. (1) One of the major ways in which
children become HIV-infected is via perinatal transmission from
the infected mother to her fetus. By targeting pregnant women
for screening, this mode of transmission can be reduced through
monitoring and treatment of HIV-infectesd pregnant women.
Without antiretroviral therapy, approximately 25 percent of
pregnant women infected with HIV in the United States will
transmit the virus to their child.(2) Ap