HIV screening during pregnancy.
Costs of the screening programme This raises the issue of the cost of a screening programme that is only resulting in the identification of one or two women who may gain a benefit. To provide further context for this result, it has been estimated that an HIV+ woman has a 25% chance of passing the virus to her baby during pregnancy. So it is quite possible that none of the women identified as being HIV+ over the past 4 – 5 years would have given birth to a baby with HIV.