Multiple Choice
Which of the following statements regarding HIV is accurate?
A) Infant immune systems are particularly robust and are better able to ward off HIV than are adult patients.
B) Improved methods for screening treatment have reduced prenatal transmission of HIV to 20 percent in Europe and North America.
C) HIV transmission to infants no longer poses a risk due to effective antiretroviral therapies during the prenatal period.
D) HIV-infected mothers can transmit the disease to their infants during the pregnancy, while giving birth, or while breastfeeding.
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