2005 The Abuja Call to Action [207]: - Recognizing that 15% of new HIV infections each year are caused by MTCTs, and that elimination of HIV infection in infants and young children would serve to ...

Landmark studies demonstrated that reducing maternal viral load with zidovudine (ZDV) significantly decreased mother-to-infant HIV transmission. In subsequent trials, more-intensive treatment of ...

A study led by researchers at The Saban Research Institute of Children's Hospital Los Angeles (CHLA) suggests that maternal HIV infection influences the microbiome of their HIV-uninfected infants.

The sharp job cuts at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention include a successful program reducing HIV transmission to babies. Over the past 30 years, the number of infant HIV cases has fallen ...

A three-drug antiretroviral therapy essentially eliminates HIV transmission from mother to infant via breastfeeding, according to new results from large clinical trial held in sub-Saharan Africa and ...

Getty Images Guidelines for HIV-positive mothers who wish to breastfeed have been updated with new recommendations. HIV-positive mothers with undetectable viral load can now safely breastfeed their ...

Christopher Alba, of the Medical Practice Evaluation Center at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) is the lead author and Caitlin Dugdale, MD, MSc of the Division of Infectious Diseases at MGH, is ...

In the transmission of HIV-1 from mother to child only a subset of a mother's viruses infects their infants either in utero or via breastfeeding, and the viruses that are transmitted depend on whether ...

Infants in Kenya can now be diagnosed for HIV, at birth. This is after World Health Organisation (WHO) issued the greenlight for use of Alere q HIV-1/2 Detect assay, a diagnostic tool that provides ...

Roger Osayende, a former management consultant, must advise the Ministry of Health of Ektu, a fictional country in Central Africa, on how to implement a new point-of-care diagnostic test for infants ...