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Working to ensure that no more babies are born HIV positive
The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria has launched its Born HIV-free campaign. Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, Global Fund ambassador for the Protection of Mothers and Children, is calling upon each of us to lend our support to this campaign by registering at the website www.bornhivfree.org.
Today, fewer than half the pregnant women who are HIV positive have access to treatment to prevent HIV being passed from mother to child – what is known as “vertical” mother-child transmission. If no preventive treatment is given, 20% to 45% of newborns are infected. However, where preventive treatment is put into practice, this figure drops to less than 2%. Which shows how important such preventive action is…
The principal measures rely on the mother taking antiretroviral drugs during pregnancy and after the birth. And at birth the newborn baby also receives treatment. It is also recommended that at-risk babies are delivered by caesarean section and that they are not breastfed. Up to now, the Global Fund has provided this type of preventive treatment to 790,000 women ... but each year, in developing countries, 430,000 babies are still being born carrying HIV.
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