Facts, Statistics, Strategy Resources Downloads and links for PMTCT providers, including: national guidelines healthworker job aids monitoring and evaluation documents experiences and best practices from our PMTCT Partners patient education materials Featured Resources National Training Refresher Package PMTCT Trainer Manual (Option B+) PMTCT Pocket Guide (Option B+) Tanzania National Guidelines for Comprehensive Care Services for PMTCT and Keeping Mothers Alive (Option B+) New and Noteworthy PMTCT Training for Private Health Facilities The MoHSW, Tanzania recognises the crucial role of private health facilities in implementing PMTCT services. The MoHSW therefore organised and facilitated a training on current PMTCT practices including Option B+ implementation for representatives from private health care facilities
HIV: mother-to-child transmission
In addition, we use a regular surveillance protocol to capture harms alerts from organisations such as the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the UK Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA), which are added to the reviews as required. Categories presented in Clinical Evidence indicate a judgement about the strength of the evidence available to our contributors prior to publication and the relevant importance of benefit and harms
(2007), all other studies in this category were related to the clinical aspect of providing ARV to mother and baby, such as safety and toxicity of ARVs (Zidovudine and Nevirapine) and the prevalence of anemia due to Zidovudine use. Of these 46 papers, 20 were related to experiences of implementing a PMTCT program and 26 were related to individual components of the cascade of PMTCT services
References to non-CDC sites on the Internet are provided as a service to MMWR readers and do not constitute or imply endorsement of these organizations or their programs by CDC or the U.S. The seven-fold increase in the number of pregnant and breastfeeding women started on ART per quarter during the first year of Option B+ has multiple potential benefits to mothers, their partners, and their children
The abstracts of all of the documents were initially screened by one reviewer; however, the full-text documents were retrieved and re-screened by two reviewers independently. One such strategy is to use widely available, socially acceptable infrastructure (religious institutions) in addition to healthcare facilities as they provide access to pregnant women close to their home environment
Mobilization activities include door-to-door visits to families to educate them about PMTCT, community dialogues, information distribution, and other HIV prevention services. When Sibongile tested positive, she enrolled in the government programme for the prevention of mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT), where she got antiretroviral drugs to block transmission of the virus to her baby
The global community has committed itself to accelerate progress for the prevention of mother-to-child HIV transmission (PMTCT) through an initiative with the goal to eliminate new paediatric HIV infections by 2015 and improve maternal, newborn and child survival and health in the context of HIV
The materials are intended to improve the knowledge, skills, and confidence of a range of professional and lay health workers within PMTCT programs, thus enhancing the scope and quality of services available to PMTCT clients and their families. All of the materials included in the Toolkit are generic in form, and thus allow Ministries of Health, provincial and district authorities, health facilities and health workers, and implementing partners to adapt the content to suit specific programmatic and policy contexts
Expert Panel on Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV
Partner country programs should support regional or district health systems, including PMTCT and other treatment and care linkages, and better systems for monitoring and reporting. Presentation includes an overview of global PMTCT goals and targets as well as distribution and trends of infection between different regions worldwide
Following this protocol, an HIV-positive pregnant woman will begin antiretroviral therapy at the antenatal clinic and will continue treatment for the rest of her life. They are intended to simplify and standardize previous recommendations by making guidelines for initiating antiretroviral therapy (ART) for pregnant women the same as for nonpregnant women and by taking into account programmatic considerations that affect implementation
A number of reasons were given for this including traditional feeding practices, a poor understanding of what exclusive breastfeeding involves, as well as poor communication about why women should exclusively breastfeed. (2013) ' HIV-related Stigma as a Barrier to Achievement of Global PMTCT and Maternal Health Goals: A Review of the Evidence' AIDS and Behaviour 17:2528-2539 21
Risk Factors in Preventing HIV Transmission From Mother To Child
The year 2009 was the turning point for the prevention of postnatal transmission of HIV where 3 randomized controlled trials found that antiretroviral prophylaxis in pregnant women and their infants coupled with breast feeding could lead to a significant decrease in the vertical transmission of HIV. The goal of effective PPTCT is to ensure minimum risk of transmission of HIV from mother to child and ensuring a healthy mother and child at the end of intervention
Mother-to-child transmission (MTCT)
A very important component of MTCT prevention must be HIV prevention for young people, especially girls and young women before they become sexually active, and treatment for those already infected. Recommendations for use of antiretroviral drugs in pregnant HIV-1-infected women for maternal health and interventions to reduce perinatal HIV-1 transmission in the United States
From: In your own words Prevention of mother-to-child transmission news from aidsmap South Africa: Women of lower socio-economic status have greater needs for services to prevent mother-to-child HIV transmission Pregnant women of lower socio-economic status are more likely to take up early HIV testing and to have HIV-exposed infants, according to findings of a study presented by Nobubelo Ngandu at the 7th South African AIDS conference last month ... The authors found that the virus that eventually returned after the girl had been off antiretroviral therapy for more than 2 years was identical to her mother's viral strain
If you become pregnant whilst taking antiretroviral therapy and your anti-HIV drugs are not suppressing your viral load to an undetectable level, then you should have a resistance test to determine your best drug options and then change to these anti-HIV drugs. Breastfeeding The risk of infection is roughly 1 in 3 if the mother breastfeeds her child, although being on effective HIV treatment significantly reduces this risk
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