Use Of Antiretroviral Drugs Against Vertical Hiv Transmission

Myrian Alves Linhares, Mirella Fontelene de Castro, Vinícius de Jesus Carvalho Silva, Camila Silva Aguiar, Kardene Pereira Rodrigues, Débora Luana Ribeiro Pessoa*

 

Curso de Medicina, Universidade Federal do Maranhão. Estrada de Pacas, S/N, Enseada, Pinheiro – Maranhão, Brasil. CEP: 65200-000.

Curso de Farmácia, Universidade Federal do Maranhão. Campus Dom Delgado. Avenida dos Portugueses, 1966, Bacanga, São Luís – Maranhão, Brasil. CEP: 65080-805.

Curso de Gestão Hospitalar, Faculdade Gianna Beretta. Av. Jerônimo de Albuquerque, 1100 - Bequimão, São Luís – Maranhão, Brasil. CEP: 65060-645.

*E-mail: debbyeluna2@yahoo.com.br

 

*Corresponding author: Débora Luana Ribeiro Pessoa, Curso de Medicina, Universidade Federal do Maranhão. Estrada de Pacas, S/N, Enseada, Pinheiro – Maranhão, Brasil. CEP: 65200-000., E-mail: debbyeluna2@yahoo.com.br

 

Citation: Débora Luana Ribeiro Pessoa, (2020) Use Of Antiretroviral Drugs Against Vertical Hiv Transmission. Multidiscip Res Rev. 1(1); 1-3

 

Copyright: © 2020, Ribeiro Pessoa DL, This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

 

ABSTRACT

 

HIV-1 and HIV-2 are part of the lentivirus subfamily of the Retroviridae family and are the only ones in their group capable of infecting humans, causing HIV infection and the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome - AIDS. This work has as main objective to analyze the use of antiretroviral drugs in pregnant women with HIV and also to describe the evolution of the use of anti-HIV drugs in the prevention of vertical transmission. 596 articles were found in the PubMed database and 8 in the Scielo database, and subsequently selected, resulting in twelve articles. Although antiretroviral treatments are effective and reduce the morbidity and mortality of the disease, access to diagnosis and therapy is still difficult in many countries - Brazil being an example in free and universal distribution.

 

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