Higher risks of mother-to-child HIV transmission in countries with lower HIV prevalence: UNAIDS 2013 results for 32 countries with generalised epidemics

• Main Authors: Andrew Hill (Author), Thomas Dauncey (Author), Jake Levi (Author), Katherine Heath (Author), Carmen Pérez Casas (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Elsevier, 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Objectives: Diagnosis and treatment of HIV-infected mothers significantly lower rates of mother-to-child transmission (MTCT) of HIV. Early infant diagnosis (EID) is required to monitor success of prevention of MTCT (pMTCT) programmes. Our aim was to compare rates of MTCT, EID and pMTCT in countries...