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What is Provisional sho antiretroviral regime given in the peripaum period reduces the risk of veical transmission by and explain in detail?
Most transmission of HN occurs during pregnancy and bih, breastfeeding may account for 5-15% of infants becoming infected after delivery Studies have demonstrated that truncated regimens of zidovudine alone or with Lamivudine given to mother during last few weeks of pregnancy or even during labour & delivery & to the infant for a week or less reduced transmission to infant by 50% compared to placebo. rEF : katzung 12 th ed.