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Proposals for screening pregnant women and newborns for HIV infection have provoked much controversy. This volume analyzes the possible goals of such screening programs and assesses whether these goals can be achieved. It also provides guidance to policymakers in developing and implementing sound screening policy.

Gynaecology. Obstetrics --- Semiology. Diagnosis. Symptomatology --- Infectious diseases. Communicable diseases --- Paediatrics --- Doorlichting [Medische ] --- Dépistage médical --- Mass medical screening --- Mass screening [Medical ] --- Medical examinations --- Medical screening --- Medische doorlichting --- Screening [Medical ] --- AIDS (Disease) in pregnancy --- AIDS (Disease) in infants --- HIV (Viruses) --- Reproductive Physiological Processes --- Costs and Cost Analysis --- Epidemiologic Methods --- Jurisprudence --- Health Care Quality, Access, and Evaluation --- Social Control Policies --- Community Health Services --- Therapeutics --- Health Surveys --- Health Planning --- Education, Nonprofessional --- Medicine --- Patient Rights --- Health Services Accessibility --- Probability --- Mental Health Services --- Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Viral --- Risk Management --- Government --- Lentivirus Infections --- Social Control, Informal --- Epidemiologic Measurements --- Patient Care Management --- Diagnostic Services --- Communicable Disease Control --- Sociology --- Economics --- Social Control, Formal --- Chemicals and Drugs --- Preventive Health Services --- Health --- Psychology, Social --- Health Services --- Serologic Tests --- Weights and Measures --- Women --- Laboratory Techniques and Procedures --- Diagnostic Techniques and Procedures --- Infant --- Organization and Administration --- Mathematics --- Psychology, Applied --- Health Care Evaluation Mechanisms --- Immunologic Deficiency Syndromes --- Environment and Public Health --- Forensic Psychiatry --- Public Health Practice --- Diagnostic Techniques, Obstetrical and Gynecological --- Investigative Techniques --- Retroviridae Infections --- Health Care Economics and Organizations --- Natural Science Disciplines --- Immunologic Tests --- Data Collection --- Age Groups --- Health Care Facilities, Manpower, and Services --- Psychological Phenomena and Processes --- Sexually Transmitted Diseases --- Human Rights --- Population Characteristics --- Analytical, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Techniques and Equipment --- Reproductive Physiological Phenomena --- Mathematical Concepts --- Diagnosis --- Health Care --- Health Services Administration --- Policy --- Education --- Quality of Health Care --- Social Sciences --- Immune System Diseases --- Behavior and Behavior Mechanisms --- Persons --- Organizations --- Behavioral Disciplines and Activities --- Health Occupations --- Psychiatry --- Psychiatry and Psychology --- Reproductive and Urinary Physiological Phenomena --- Virus Diseases --- Immunologic Techniques --- Anthropology, Education, Sociology and Social Phenomena --- Behavioral Sciences --- Named Groups --- Disciplines and Occupations --- RNA Virus Infections --- Phenomena and Processes --- Diseases --- Anonymous Testing --- Coercion --- Public Health --- Risk --- Statistics as Topic --- Confidentiality --- Counseling --- Delivery of Health Care --- Contact Tracing --- Health Care Rationing --- HIV Infections --- Mass Screening --- Patient Care --- Pregnant Women --- Risk Assessment --- AIDS Serodiagnosis --- Informed Consent --- Mandatory Programs --- Pharmaceutical Preparations --- State Government --- Health Education --- HIV Seropositivity --- Neonatal Screening --- Public Policy --- Minority Groups --- Prenatal Diagnosis --- Reproduction --- Pregnancy --- Infant, Newborn --- Reference Standards --- Resource Allocation --- Cost-Benefit Analysis --- Policy Making --- Prejudice --- Epidemiology --- Voluntary Programs --- Health & Biological Sciences --- Gynecology & Obstetrics --- Medical screening. --- Diagnosis. --- Mass screening, Medical --- Screening, Medical --- AIDS-associated retrovirus --- AIDS virus --- ARV (Viruses) --- HTLV-III (Viruses) --- HTLV-III-LAV (Viruses) --- Human immunodeficiency viruses --- Human T-cell leukemia virus III --- Human T-cell lymphotropic virus III --- Human T-lymphotropic virus III --- IDAV (Viruses) --- Immunodeficiency-associated virus --- LAV (Viruses) --- LAV-HTLV-III (Viruses) --- Lymphadenopathy-associated virus --- T-lymphotrophic virus III, Human --- Diagnostic services --- Health risk assessment --- HTLV (Viruses) --- Virus-induced immunosuppression --- Immunologic diseases in infants --- Immunologic diseases in pregnancy --- AIDS (Disease) in children --- AIDS (Disease) in pregnancy - Diagnosis. --- AIDS (Disease) in infants - Diagnosis. --- HIV (Viruses) - Diagnosis.