<P> The UK National Screening Committee's current policy position on GBS is: "screening should not be offered to all pregnant women ." This policy was reviewed in 2012, and despite receiving 212 responses, of which 93% advocated screening, the NSC decided to not recommend antenatal screening . </P> <P> This decision was strongly criticized by the charity Group B Strep Support as ignoring both the wishes of the public and the rising incidence rates of GBS infection in the UK . In May 2006, the UK National Screening Committee launched their GBS online learning package . This learning package was developed to raise awareness of GBS amongst health care professionals . Developed by the Women's Health Specialist Library (part of the National Library for Health), the learning package is based upon the current UK guidelines published by the RCOG, and it is divided into three sections--antenatal, delivery, and postnatal . Within each section, the option exists to access an introduction to GBS, different clinical scenarios, a series of quiz questions to test knowledge, and a FAQs section . </P> <P> Recommendations for IAP to prevent perinatal GBS disease were issued in 1996 by the CDC . In these guidelines, the use of one of two prevention methods was recommended, either a risk - based approach or a culture - based screening approach . The CDC issued updated guidelines in 2002; these guidelines recommended the universal culture - based screening of all pregnant women at 35--37 weeks' gestation to optimize the identification of women who must receive IAP . CDC also recommended that women with unknown GBS colonization status at the time of delivery be managed according to the presence of intrapartum risk factors . Because of this strategy, the US has seen a major reduction in the incidence of GBS - EOD . </P> <P> The CDC issued updated guidelines again in 2010 . However, the foundations of prevention in the CDC ` s 2010 guidelines remain unchanged . The following were the main additions in the 2010 guidelines: </P>

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