Nine more countries under WHO maternal HIV plan
This article was originally published in Clinica
Executive Summary
Antenatal HIV testing programmes in nine countries are to share in a $50m cash allocation from the WHO, UNICEF, UNITAID that is aimed at avoiding mother-to-child transmission. Over the next two years, some 10 million pregnant women in the Central African Republic, China, Haiti, Lesotho, Myanmar (Burma), Nigeria, Swaziland, Uganda and Zimbabwe will be tested, and 285,000 mothers and newborns will be treated. The plan was unveiled at the 17th biannual International AIDS Conference, in Mexico City. Eight countries are already covered by such a programme. The nine new countries account for some 25% of the world's HIV-infected mothers-to-be.