Pregnancy has a positive impact on health of AIDS-infected women, researches of Vanderbilt University say.
During 7 years, the researchers have been observing the health status of almost 760 AIDS-infected women. 71% of women have been receiving a highly active antiretroviral therapy. Before this treatment method was created, HIV/AIDS infected women were considered to give birth to HIV/AIDS-positive children in 25% of cases. After application of the highly active therapy, the number of HIV/AIDS-positive children born to HIV/AIDS-infected mothers decreased to 1%.
According to the research, disease activity in pregnant HIV/AIDS-positive women was considerably lower than in HIV/AIDS-infected women, who were not pregnant. It should be noted, that this effect continues even after childbirth. Those women, who had been pregnant several times, felt themselves even better, than those, who were pregnant for the first time. The researchers of Vanderbilt University can not explain this effect. Though, they suppose, that immunological changes in organism of a pregnant woman increase efficiency of medicines.
