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Child Survival Call To Action Event Signals A 'Hopeful Moment' In Global Health
"Helping mothers give birth to HIV-free children is an essential piece of the puzzle of ending preventable child deaths," U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator Ambassador Eric Goosby writes in this post in the AIDS.gov blog, adding, "Yet 390,000 infants around the globe were born with the virus in 2010." He continues, "Science has long established that providing mothers with antiretroviral drugs can prevent them from transmitting the virus to their children -- as well as keeping the mothers alive themselves," and writes, "What is needed is to take this intervention, available in affluent nations to prevent mother-to-child transmission of HIV, and make it available in the developing world."
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