Saturday, May 28, 2011

In Running: Women Unite to End Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV

In Africa, thousands of children are infected with HIV by their HIV-positive mothers during pregnancy, labor, delivery or breastfeeding. It’s called mother-to-child transmission [MTCT]. But the process can be prevented, said Robin Smalley of the South Africa-based organization Mothers to Mothers. She said developed countries have shown it is possible. But she said there is a “huge inequity tha ...Running

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