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Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV

Author: UNICEF
Price: Free
No. of pages: 4
Publication date: 2002
Publisher: UNICEF
Languages: English (French, Spanish)

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Without preventive interventions, approximately 35 per cent of infants born to HIV-positive mothers contract the virus through mother-to-child transmission. In 2001, 800,000 children under the age of 15 contracted HIV, over 90 per cent of them through mother-to-child transmission. The scale of this urgent problem and the key strategies being used by UNICEF and its partners to respond are covered in this fact sheet.