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Delivery of care
HIV-Aids: Links with family planning bring benefits

Ethiopian policy makers, faced with a rapidly expanding population and rising numbers of HIV-Aids infections, decided to tackle both problems together.

Published
09 July 2012
From
Financial Times
Conception
New SOGC guidelines focus on how to help HIV-positive Canadians plan a safe pregnancy

A new clinical practice guideline helps doctors, nurses and midwives assist HIV-positive individuals or couples with their fertility and pregnancy planning decisions.

Published
21 June 2012
From
Society of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists of Canada
Prevention of mother-to-child transmission
Keeping mothers in care: the real-world challenge for PMTCT programmes

Implementing new recommendations for prevention of mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT) using antiretroviral drugs has resulted in a significant reduction in new infant HIV infections in Zambia, a study

Published
07 March 2012
By
Keith Alcorn
Prevention of mother-to-child transmission
Performance of PMTCT in routine programme matches clinical trials, Botswana reports

Formula-fed infants born to women who started ART during pregnancy under routine programme conditions in Botswana, without frequent viral load monitoring or specialised care, were fourteen times less

Published
31 August 2011
By
Carole Leach-Lemens
Prevention of mother-to-child transmission
South Africa's PMTCT programme reduces mother-to-child transmission to under 4%

Nine years after the start of a national prevention of mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT) programme, South Africa’s mother-to-child HIV  transmission (MTCT) rate is under 4% at four to eight

Published
19 July 2011
By
Carole Leach-Lemens
Prevention of mother-to-child transmission
Zambian study shows importance of early HIV test and fast ART for pregnant women

Starting ART at least 13 weeks before giving birth provides the greatest benefits in prevention of mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT), Carla J Chibwesha and colleagues reported in a retrospective

Published
15 July 2011
By
Carole Leach-Lemens
Prevention of mother-to-child transmission
Male partner involvement in PMTCT reduces HIV transmission risk

Male partner involvement in the prevention of mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT) services reduced the risks of vertical transmission and infant mortality by more than 40% compared to no involvement

Published
16 December 2010
By
Carole Leach-Lemens
Efficiency of health system, not just better regimens, critical to reducing mother-to-child HIV cases

Reducing the number of children infected with HIV and ensuring that mothers have access to life-saving treatment will only happen when systems perform with greater than 90% efficiency

Published
13 December 2010
By
Carole Leach-Lemens
HIV treatment in children
International AIDS Conference, Vienna 2010: Maternal and child health issues

HATIP's coverage of maternal and child health issues at the Eighteenth International AIDS Conference was kindly supported by UNICEF.

Published
29 July 2010
From
HIV & AIDS treatment in practice
Prevention of mother-to-child transmission
Half of HIV-exposed children in Africa not receiving drug to prevent infection

A four-country African study of mothers with HIV giving birth in 2007 and 2008 has shown that up to half of children exposed to HIV during pregnancy

Published
18 July 2010
By
Keith Alcorn
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