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MTCT-Plus Program Has Two Goals: End Maternal HIV Transmission + Treat Mothers
Mike Mitka
JAMA. 2002;288:153-154.
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When it comes to reducing transmission of HIV to newborns in resource-poor
countries, are health care workers throwing the mother out with the bath water?
Worldwide more than 1500 children per day become infected with HIV through
mother-to-child transmission (MTCT). Low-cost, effective therapies can reduce
this grim statistic. But pregnant women with HIV who receive little or no
care for their illness may be less likely to seek treatment to avoid infecting
their expected children. A new effort, MTCT-Plus, funded by private philanthropic
foundations, hopes to change this dynamic.
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A girl holds her baby sister at the edge of a sugarcane field near
Hlabisa in South Africa's Kwazulu-Natal province, one of the world's worst
AIDS hotspots. AIDS has left many children here without parents. (Photo credit:
Malcolm Linton/Getty Images)
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The 5-year demonstration project is intended to show that HIV treatment
can be effectively delivered to pregnant women in . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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