Objectives: To characterize the profile of mothers with positive human immunodeficiency virus (HIV+) and birth conditions of newborns. Method: A retrospective descriptive study, quantitative approach performed in a public maternity in Fortaleza, Ceará-Brazil. All the participants were HIV + seropositive mothers and their newborns admitted in 2009, totaled 27, recorded in the Epidemiological Surveillance Unit (N...