Mother-to-Child Transmission
![Photo of an HIV-positive woman holding her baby and singing at the Perinatal HIV Research Unit clinic at the Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital in Soweto, South Africa.](https://webarchive.library.unt.edu/eot2008/20090825071647im_/http://www.usaid.gov/our_work/global_health/aids/images/photo/pmtct.jpg) |
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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 |
Former 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
Mother-to-Child Transmission Archives
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