[Use of darunavir in HIV-infected women during pregnancy].

The use of antiretroviral drugs (ARVDs) in a mother and a child can reduce the risk of vertical transmission of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) to less than 1%; therefore, highly active antiretroviral therapy is used in all pregnant women regardless of indications for HIV-infection treatment. The major requirements for choosing an ARVD to prevent mother-to-child HIV transmission are its high safety for a pregnant woman, a fetus, and a baby and its high therapeutic efficacy. Clinical trials of darunavir (DRV) in adults and children have shown a high virologic response, good tolerance, and safety. Trials and observations have demonstrated the high efficacy and safety of a DRV when used in pregnant women. Pharmacokinetic studies in pregnant women have indicated the effective and well-tolerated concentration of a DRV when it is co-administered with low-dose ritonavir, which permits the use of a DRV for both the prevention of mother-to-child HIV transmission and the treatment of pregnant women who require antiretroviral therapy. The Russian clinical protocol "Use of ARVDs in the package of measures for the prevention of mother-to-child HIV transmission" approved by the National Scientific Society of Infectiologists in 2013 recommends DRV as an alternative drug in antiretroviral therapy regimens for pregnant women to prevent mother-to-child HIV transmission and to treat maternal HIV infection.

[HIV infection: the psychological indices at different stages of the disease]. / VICh-infektsiia: psikhologicheskie pokazateli na raznykh stadiiakh bolezni.

The pronounced forms of depression and the levels of neuro-psychical adaptation and subjective control (attitude to the disease) were studied in 27 patients with HIV infection. 14 patients were at stage A, 8 patients were at stage B and 5 patients were at stage C of the CDC classification (1994). Starting from the early stages of the disease, neuro-psychical adaptation disturbances were noted: at stage A 10 patients belonged to group 5 of health, at stage B 8 patients and at stage C 2 patients. Most of the patients (15) had a low level of subjective control, 12 patients exhibited a medium level, which should be taken into consideration in prescribing and carrying out curative and diagnostic procedures.

[HIV infection in children perinatally infected]. / VICh-infektsiia u detei s perinatal'nym infitsirovaniem.

During the period from 1987 to the middle of 1996 only 20 children were born of HIV-infected women, while during the following 1.5 years the number of such children were 59, the maximum number of seropositive children being registered in Kaliningrad and the Kaliningrad region, in the Krasnodar Territory, Stavropol and Nizhny Novgorod (altogether 46 children). Out of 79 children born of HIV-infected mothers during the whole period of the epidemic, 8 children died. Out of the children born before 1995 who remained alive, 9 children were struck off the register after 3 years of observation due to the absence of HIV infection. By the end of 1997 63 children were registered, the majority of them born in 1996-1997.

[The clinical course of HIV infection in children who were parenterally infected]. / Klinicheskoe techenie VICh-infektsii u detei s parenteral'nym putem infitsirovaniia.

The data on the study of the clinical course of HIV infection in 127 children, 124 from these infected in nosocomial foci. The overwhelming majority of the children were infected at the period of their stay in hospitals of Elista, Volgograd, Rostov-on-Don, Shakhty (Rostov Province) and Stavropol'. At the end of 9-9.5 years elapsed since the appearance of the first documented cases of parenteral infection 33 children (26%) died. The study revealed that at the age under 1 year the course of HIV infection could rapidly progress into the stage of AIDS in the presence of aggravated premorbid background linked with the unfavorable course of pregnancy in the mother and a severe disease in the child prior to contacting HIV infection.

[The characteristics of the course of tuberculosis in HIV-infected patients and prophylactic measures]. / Osobennosti techeniia tuberkuleza u VICh-infitsirovannykh i mery ego profilaktiki.

Morbidity in HIV infection and tuberculosis in persons having these two infections in association was analyzed. According to the data for the end of the first quarter of 1997 the presence of association of HIV infection with tuberculosis was found in 91 patients. In 70.3% of cases HIV infection was contacted before the appearance of tuberculosis and in 18.7% of cases, after it; in 11% of cases the order of appearance of these two diseases could not be established. The study revealed that the markedness of the clinical picture of tuberculosis was determined by the progress of HIV infection.