Mother-to-Child Transmission
President Bush announced a new $500
million International Mother and Child HIV Prevention Initiative
that seeks to prevent the transmission of HIV/AIDS from mothers
to infants and to improve health care delivery in Africa and
the Caribbean. Through a combination of improving care and
drug treatment and building the healthcare delivery capacity,
this new effort is expected to reach up to one million women
annually and reduce mother-to-child transmission by forty
percent within five years or less in twelve African countries
and the Caribbean. USAID has had programs to prevent mother-to-child
transmission since 1999. Learn
more about USAID's efforts to prevent mother-to-child transmission
of HIV/AIDS.
Mother-to-Child Transmission Archives
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