HIV/AIDS Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! === Mother-to-child === {{Main|HIV and pregnancy}} Programs to prevent the [[vertical transmission]] of HIV (from mothers to children) can reduce rates of transmission by 92β99%.<ref name=Mother2010>{{cite journal |vauthors=Coutsoudis A, Kwaan L, Thomson M |title=Prevention of vertical transmission of HIV-1 in resource-limited settings |journal=Expert Review of Anti-Infective Therapy |volume=8 |issue=10 |pages=1163β75 |date=October 2010 |pmid=20954881 |doi=10.1586/eri.10.94|s2cid=46624541 }}</ref><ref name=Kurth2011/> This primarily involves the use of a combination of antiviral medications during pregnancy and after birth in the infant, and potentially includes [[bottle feeding]] rather than [[breastfeeding]].<ref name=Mother2010/><ref>{{cite journal |vauthors=Siegfried N, van der Merwe L, Brocklehurst P, Sint TT |title=Antiretrovirals for reducing the risk of mother-to-child transmission of HIV infection |journal=The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews |issue=7 |page=CD003510 |date=July 2011 |pmid=21735394 |doi=10.1002/14651858.CD003510.pub3 |editor1-last=Siegfried |editor1-first=Nandi}}</ref> If replacement feeding is acceptable, feasible, affordable, sustainable and safe, mothers should avoid breastfeeding their infants; however, exclusive breastfeeding is recommended during the first months of life if this is not the case.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.who.int/hiv/mediacentre/Infantfeedingconsensusstatement.pf.pdf |access-date=March 12, 2008 |title=WHO HIV and Infant Feeding Technical Consultation Held on behalf of the Inter-agency Task Team (IATT) on Prevention of HIV β Infections in Pregnant Women, Mothers and their Infants β Consensus statement |date=October 25β27, 2006 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080409065845/http://www.who.int/hiv/mediacentre/Infantfeedingconsensusstatement.pf.pdf |archive-date=April 9, 2008 |url-status=live}}</ref> If exclusive breastfeeding is carried out, the provision of extended antiretroviral prophylaxis to the infant decreases the risk of transmission.<ref>{{cite journal |vauthors=Horvath T, Madi BC, Iuppa IM, Kennedy GE, Rutherford G, Read JS |title=Interventions for preventing late postnatal mother-to-child transmission of HIV |journal=The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews |issue=1 |pages=CD006734 |date=January 2009 |volume=2009 |pmid=19160297 |doi=10.1002/14651858.CD006734.pub2 |editor1-last=Horvath |editor1-first=Tara|pmc=7389566 }}</ref> In 2015, [[Cuba]] became the first country in the world to eradicate mother-to-child transmission of HIV.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.who.int/mediacentre/news/releases/2015/mtct-hiv-cuba/en/ |title=WHO validates elimination of mother-to-child transmission of HIV and syphilis in Cuba |publisher=World Health Organization |date=June 30, 2015 |access-date=August 30, 2015 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150904154356/http://who.int/mediacentre/news/releases/2015/mtct-hiv-cuba/en/ |archive-date=September 4, 2015 }}</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page