Swiss HIV Cohort Study (SHCS)

Standardized data collection forms containing demographic, psychosocial, clinical, laboratory, and treatment information, are completed every six month by physicians and study nurses.

The major goal is to provide optimal patient care, reduce HIV transmission and to conduct research on HIV treatment, pathogenesis, co-infections, immunology and virus – host interactions.

The two studies HIV in pregnancy and HIV in infected children are integrated in the SHCS under the name Swiss Mother and Child HIV Cohort Study (MoCHiV). It aims at preventing mother to child transmission and enrolls HIV-infected pregnant women and their children.

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