- Authors
- Maman, Suzanne, Allison Groves, Elizabeth King, Matthew Pierce and Sarah Wyckoff
- Title
- HIV Testing During Pregnancy: A Literature and Policy Review
- Description of Work
- Final Paper Submitted to Open Society Institute Law and Health InitiativeA
- Imprint
- Open Society Institute, July 2008, 120 pp
- Description
Reproduced with the kind permission of the Open Society Institute www.soros.org.
- Abstract
"Using a standardized framework we review the policies to describe HIV testing approaches and the extent to which the policies consider the safety and human rights issues for women. This paper also synthesizes the public health, ethics, law and human rights literature on HIV testing during pregnancy. We conducted a systematic review of over 600 published papers and unpublished reports to understand and describe the ethical, legal, and policy debate over HIV testing of pregnant women as well as the research informing that debate."