Host: Michael Benson, MD

Guest: Susan Cu-Uvin, MD

In one developing Asian country, not a single case of HIV was found among several thousand pregnant women tested. Yet in one African country, a whopping 40% of pregnant women were infected. How can either be true? Why? Today our guest is Dr. Susan Cu-Uvin, professor of obstetrics and gynecology and Medicine at Brown Medical School. She is also Director of the Miriam Hospital's Immunology Center in Providence Rhode Island, which provides comprehensive care to over a thousand women and men living with HIV/AIDS. She is doing NIH funded research on the prevalence and transmission of HIV among during pregnancy.