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Offering routine antenatal testing for HIV and hepatitis B in the rural setting of Cornwall
F E A Keane1, J Neale, T Phillips
1Department of Genito-urinary Medicine, Royal Cornwall Hospital, Truro, UK. frances.keane@cornwall.nhs.uk
Sexually Transmitted Infections
|June 26, 2002
Abstract:
Before Department of Health directives to offer HIV and hepatitis B (HBV) testing to all pregnant women, there was little such screening in Cornwall. Through a multiagency collaborative approach a new antenatal screening programme for HIV/HBV has been introduced with high uptake in the first year (HIV 92% and HBV 93%). We also report the findings of a questionnaire survey of community midwives who alone offer antenatal HIV/HBV testing in Cornwall.