ANAESTHETIC CONSIDERATIONS FOR THE HIV POSITIVE PARTURIENT *Adesina Oluwabukola and **Oladokun Adesina *Department of Medicine, University College Hospital, Ibadan. **Department of Obstetrics & Ggynaecology, College of Medicine, University of Ibadan, Nigeria. ABSTRACT The HIV epidemic in children parallels that among women on account of perinatal transmission. A combination of antiretroviral therapy and elective caesarean section reduces the rate of vertical transmission to