Mother-to-Child Transmission

	A group of HIV-positive women hold their babies and sing hymns ahead of treatment at the Perinatal HIV Research Unit clinic at the Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital in Soweto, South Africa. Source: Jon Hrusa, South Africa

President Bush announced a new $500 million International Mother and Child HIV Prevention Initiative that seeks to prevent the transmission of HIV/AIDS from mothers to infants and to improve health care delivery in Africa and the Caribbean. Through a combination of improving care and drug treatment and building the healthcare delivery capacity, this new effort is expected to reach up to one million women annually and reduce mother-to-child transmission by forty percent within five years or less in twelve African countries and the Caribbean. USAID has had programs to prevent mother-to-child transmission since 1999.

Learn more about USAID's efforts to prevent mother-to-child transmission of HIV/AIDS

• 2004 Compilation of Partner Publications on Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission
  
  
• Testing and Counseling for Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV (TC for PMTCT) Support Tools
  
  
• The President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief Annual Report on Prevention of Mother-To-Child Transmission of the HIV Infection - 06/04
  


• Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV Country Programs
  


• USAID Administrator Natsios Participates in Launch of Presidential HIV Prevention Initiative in Haiti - 7/21/03
  


• Preventing Mother to Child Transmission of HIV/AIDS
  • View a webcast of a congressional briefing to discuss global efforts to prevent mother-to-child transmission of HIV/AIDS.
    


• President Bush's International Mother and Child HIV Prevention Initiative
  • Read full text remarks by the President.
    


• Women and AIDS
  
  
• December 2003 Horizons Report
  


• The Social Marketing Approach to PMTCT [PDF, 328KB]
  


• Family Planning/HIV Technical Guidance - 9/03 [PDF, 253KB]
  


• Success Stories
  • Integrating Prevention-of-Mother-to-Child-Transmission into African Health Care [PDF, 106KB]
  • Helping HIV-Positive Women Give Birth to Healthy Infants [PDF, 228KB]
  • Pregnant Women Seek HIV Testing in Haiti [PDF, 2MB]

Mother-to-Child Transmission Archives