The steady scale up and improvement of services to prevent mother-to-child transmission of HIV has reduced the annual number of new infections among children globally by 56% since 2010 and by 70% since 2000. Since 1995, an estimated 1.6 million new HIV infections among children have been averted due to the provision of antiretroviral medicines to women living with HIV during pregnancy or breastfeeding. The vast majority of these infections (1.3 million) were averted between 2010 and 2015. Complex challenges remain, however, to achieve the elimination of mother-to-child transmission of HIV.
