News by topic

Search through all our worldwide HIV and AIDS news and features, using the topics below to filter your results by subjects including HIV treatment, transmission and prevention, and hepatitis and TB co-infections.

Prevention of mother-to-child transmission news

Show

From To
Infectiousness and treatment as prevention
Swazis in new HIV treatment trials

Swaziland, with the world’s highest incidence of HIV, is embarking on pilot projects to offer treatment to all people who are HIV-positive, irrespective of their CD4 count. The studies will investigate if the use of ‘treatment for prevention’ could reduce new HIV infections among Swa-zis. The new approach is called ‘Treat All.’

Published
13 May 2013
From
Times of Swaziland
HIV prevention policy
Cambodia on track to eliminate HIV transmission by 2020

The World Health Organisation says Cambodia is on track to become one of the few countries in the world to successfully reverse its HIV epidemic and may eliminate new infections by 2020. The Southeast Asian nation has reduced its HIV prevalence rate from a 1998 peak of 1.7 percent among people aged 15-49 to 0.7 percent in 2012 across the whole population

Published
13 May 2013
From
Radio Australia
Infant feeding
For African women in the UK, formula feeding has a high social and personal cost

Although most African women living with HIV in the UK do comply with medical recommendations to avoid breastfeeding, doing so comes at a high social and personal

Published
23 April 2013
By
Roger Pebody
Infant feeding
Strong impact of weaning on HIV levels in breastmilk: Lusaka study

HIV RNA and DNA levels in breast milk rose more than 10-fold in response to changes in frequency of infant feeding around the time of weaning, according to results of a 958-woman trial in Lusaka, Zambia. The findings have implications for breastfeeding advice and for maternal antiretroviral therapy (ART) over the full duration of breastfeeding.

Published
22 April 2013
From
International AIDS Society
Prevention of mother-to-child transmission
Exclusive Breastfeeding For More Than 4 Months Lowers Mother-To-Infant HIV Risk

HIV-infected mothers who exclusively breastfeed for more than the first four months of life have a lower risk of transmitting the virus to their babies through their milk. The finding came from scientists at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health and was published in the journal Science Translational Medicine.

Published
19 April 2013
From
HIV / AIDS News From Medical News Today
Support for families and children
Integrating HIV care into community health workers' role is a good model for southern Africa

A community health worker model of home-based preventive care, the Philani Intervention Program (PIP), resulted in significantly enhanced maternal and infant wellbeing among pregnant women living with and

Published
18 April 2013
By
Carole Leach-Lemens
Prevention of mother-to-child transmission
South African clinics already achieving zero new HIV infections in children

Maternity clinics in South Africa have the potential to achieve zero transmission of HIV from mother to child, according to a review at Tygerberg Infectious Diseases Clinic

Published
17 April 2013
By
Carole Leach-Lemens
Treatment for women
Option B+: Understanding perspectives and experiences of women living with HIV

Option B+ is a prevention of vertical transmission approach for expectant mothers living with HIV in which women are immediately offered treatment for life regardless of their CD4 count. This approach offers advantages such as protection of partner(s) and (unborn) child, as well as benefits to the woman's health, but also carries with it risks. In the attached publication, GNP+ and ICW report on the results of 8 different focus group discussions that discussed these issues in Uganda and Malawi.

Published
12 April 2013
From
GNP+
Access to medicines and treatment
Global Fund Reports Significant Progress on ART and PMTCT

Significant progress has been achieved in providing antiretroviral therapy (ART) and preventing mother-to-child transmission of HIV (PMTCT), but low antenatal care coverage and other health systems and gender-related challenges are hampering further progress on these fronts.

Published
09 April 2013
From
Global Fund Observer
Reproductive health
One-in-four deaths in pregnancy due to HIV in worst-affected countries

One-in-four pregnancy-related deaths is due to HIV in countries with a high HIV prevalence, a meta-analysis of 23 studies shows.HIV-infected women have eight times the

Published
09 April 2013
By
Carole Leach-Lemens
← First12345...23Next →

Filter by country