Lack of Long-term Effects of In Utero Exposure to Zidovudine Among Uninfected Children Born to HIV-Infected Women

Abstract
Since the results of the successful perinatal human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) prevention trial, the Pediatric AIDS Clinical Trials Group Protocol 076 (PACTG 076), which included an intensive regimen of zidovudine, were reported in February 1994, use of zidovudine for prevention of mother-to-infant transmission of HIV has become widespread in the United States.1,2 However, the late effects of perinatal exposure to antiretroviral drugs on the subsequent health of uninfected children are unknown and can be determined only by the long-term follow-up of children exposed in utero.