Introduction
This booklet is about HIV and pregnancy. It includes:
- What to do if you find out that you have HIV when you are pregnant.
- What to do if you are already living with HIV and decide to have a baby.
- HIV drugs in pregnancy, mothers’ health and babies’ health.
- Having an HIV-free baby if you are living with HIV.
- Safe conception using HIV drugs for couples where one partner is living with HIV and the other is not.
- Infant feeding.
This is the 9th edition of the i-Base pregnancy guide. Jointly written with the 4M Network of Mentor Mothers with input from Positively UK.
It is about managing HIV and pregnancy in the UK.
The UK national guidelines from the British HIV Association (BHIVA) are online:
This guide will help you get the most out of your HIV treatment and care if you are thinking about getting pregnant or during your pregnancy.
We hope that it will be useful at all stages: before, during and after pregnancy.
- It should help whether or not you are already on HIV treatment.
- It includes information for your own health and the health of your baby.
Last updated: 1 November 2023.