Flu shots effective in pregnant women with or without HIV

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Flu shots effective in pregnant women with or without HIV

By Gene Emery NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Tests conducted in 2011 and 2012 show that the influenza vaccine effectively prevents flu infections in pregnant women, whether or not they are infected with HIV. "The findings conform with current practice, which is to give the flu shot to everyone," Dr. Karen Deighan, an obstetrician and gynecologist at the Loyola University Health System in Maywood, Illinois, told Reuters Health. "This study provides greater surety in terms of the benefits of being vaccinated" even when a woman has HIV, chief author Dr. Shabir Madhi of Chris Hani-Baragwanath Hospital in Gauteng, South Africa, said in a telephone interview. The double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled trials were conducted with 2,237 women in South Africa - 188 of whom had HIV - who were followed with weekly monitoring until 24 weeks after they delivered their child.

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