Preventing mother-to-child transmission of HIV in Africa : issues and challenges /Commission on HIV/AIDS and Governance in Africa or UNECA
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United Nations. Economic Commission for Africa;Commission on HIV/AIDS and Governance in Africa;
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The risk of mother to child transmission of HIV (MTCT) has dropped to as low as 2% among the limited number of HIV-infected women in developed countries. In developing nations, however, particularly Sub-Saharan African countries where the vast majority of HIV-infected women of childbearing age live, MTCT rates remain high. Such high rates persist mostly because of the lack of access to existing prevention interventions, including HIV voluntary counseling and testing(VCT), replacement feeding, selective caesarian section, and antiretroviral drugs.
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“United Nations. Economic Commission for Africa; Commission on HIV/AIDS and Governance in Africa (2004-07). Preventing mother-to-child transmission of HIV in Africa : issues and challenges /Commission on HIV/AIDS and Governance in Africa or UNECA. Addis Ababa :. © UNECA,. https://hdl.handle.net/10855/5567”Collections
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