Cohort profile: the Swiss Mother and Child HIV Cohort Study (MoCHiV).

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

Prospective, multicentric observational cohort study in Switzerland investigating measures to prevent mother-to-child transmission in pregnant women with HIV (WWH) and assessing health and development of their exposed children as well as of children with HIV (CWH) in general.

Participants

Between January 1986 and December 2022, a total of 1446 mother-child pairs were enrolled. During the same period, the study also registered 187 CWH and 521 HIV-exposed but uninfected children (HEU), for whom detailed maternal information was not available. Consequently, the cohort comprises a total of 2154 children.

Findings to date

During these 37 years, research by the Swiss Mother and Child HIV Cohort Study (MoCHiV) and its international collaborators has strongly influenc

SUBMITTER: Paioni P 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11418562 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature