Common medicine can stop the transmission of HIVinfection from mother to child
Antiviral drugs almost completely reduce the risk of mothers passing on HIV infection to their children, even in a low-income country with a high HIV incidence such as Tanzania, according to a new study inby researchers from Karolinska Institutet. The discovery raises hopes of achieving the World Health Organization's goal of eliminating the spread of infection from mother to child.
The UN organization UNAIDS estimates 11 percent of children born to HIV-positive mothers in Tanzania are infected with HIV in the womb, during childbirth or via breast milk. But that number is most likely significantly lower in reality, according to the new study., at several health centers in one of Africa's largest cities, Dar es Salaam, in Tanzania. The women were offered antiviral treatment through maternity care between 2015 and 2017.
The risk of infection was more than twice as high among women who sought care late in pregnancy or had advanced HIV. Conversely, the risk of infection was only 0.9 percent in those who had already received HIV treatment when they became pregnant.antiviral drugs . But so far it has not been demonstrated in low-income countries in Africa with a high incidence of HIV infection," says Goodluck Willey Lyatuu, physician and postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Global Public Health at Karolinska Institutet and first author of the study.
The study is limited by challenges that may be typical in low-resource health systems, such as incomplete follow-up and
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