Eliminating new HIV infections among children
Naomi Watts visits Nyumbani Children’s Home to learn about paediatric HIV treatment
A living example of the impact of ARV on the health and well-being of children living with HIV.
Armenia receives award for elimination of mother-to-child transmission of HIV
Ensuring healthy lives and promoting well-being for all at all ages.
Stay Free proving a challenge in many countries
Health ministers meet at UNAIDS headquarters to discuss progress and challenges in implementing Start Free, Stay Free, AIDS Free
Preventing mother-to-child transmission of HIV in coffee producing areas of Guatemala
Preventing mother-to-child transmission of HIV remains one of the major challenges of the AIDS response in Guatemala. In 2015, testing coverage for HIV among pregnant women was 42%. Now, the International Labour Organization (ILO) has teamed up with the Coffee Foundation for Rural Development (Funcafé), the national coffee association, the national AIDS programme and other United Nations agencies, such as UNAIDS and the United Nations Children’s Fund, to promote access to HIV testing,...
Ministerial dialogue on Start Free Stay Free AIDS Free
On 5 December, health ministers from nine African countries joined UNAIDS, the United States President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) and other development partners in Geneva, Switzerland, to demonstrate their leadership in ending AIDS among adolescents and preventing new HIV infections among children by 2020.
Tireless Indian doctor dedicated to women’s health
Gita and her husband arrived at the Sir Jamsetjee Jeejebhoy (Sir J.J.) Hospital more than 15 years ago desperately wanting to have children. Because they were living with HIV, doctors had discouraged them from becoming parents, so they travelled five hours to bustling Mumbai, India, to see Rekha Daver, with the hope of finding a solution. Any solution.
Thailand is the first country in Asia to achieve elimination of HIV transmission and syphilis from mothers to their children
Sixteen years ago, Anya Nopalit was thrilled to learn that she was pregnant, but then she received devastating news. “I learned that I had HIV. I was really sad and disappointed. I wondered, why did this happen to me?” said Ms Nopalit, who lives in a fishing village in Chantaburi province in south-east Thailand.
Lives changed on the way to zero
It never crossed Khonjiswa Mdyeshana’s mind that she could be HIV-positive. So, in 2006, when she tested positive for HIV while pregnant with her first child, she couldn’t believe it. She insisted on taking the test three times. Much to her shock, every result came back positive. “In my mind, it was the end of the world for me and my child,” she says.
Closing the diagnostics gap for HIV for young infants
To achieve the Fast-Track Targets and end the AIDS epidemic by 2030, new HIV infections among children must be eliminated. HIV can pass from mother to child during pregnancy, childbirth and breastfeeding, but with antiretroviral therapy mother-to-child transmission rates can fall to 5% or less.
Preventing mother-to-child transmission of HIV
Over the past five years, there has been a rapid scale-up of services to prevent mother-to-child transmission of HIV. This has reduced the annual number of new infections among children by 50% worldwide since 2010. Globally, an estimated 77% of pregnant or breastfeeding women living with HIV were receiving antiretroviral medicines to prevent transmission of HIV to their children in 2015, up from 50% in 2010.
