Perinatal HIV Transmission Prevention: Challenges among Women Living with HIV in sub-Saharan Africa

About 86 percent of the estimated 160,000 children newly-infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) live in sub-Saharan Africa. Despite global efforts to reduce perinatal HIV transmission, this phenomenon continues to be a public health problem in sub-Saharan Africa. This paper discusses c...

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Autores principales: Armstrong-Mensah, Elizabeth, Ruiz, Krystal, Fofana, Aminata, Hawley, Victoria
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Global Health and Education Projects, Inc 2020
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Commentary | Perinatal HIV Transmission
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7433295/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32832201
http://dx.doi.org/10.21106/ijma.404
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description About 86 percent of the estimated 160,000 children newly-infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) live in sub-Saharan Africa. Despite global efforts to reduce perinatal HIV transmission, this phenomenon continues to be a public health problem in sub-Saharan Africa. This paper discusses challenges associated with perinatal HIV transmission prevention in sub-Saharan Africa and offers strategies for the way forward. These strategies include safe sex education and behavioral change, increased access to integrated antenatal care, training of unskilled traditional birth attendants into formal delivery systems, access to antiretroviral therapy, and investing in virologic testing.
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spelling pubmed-74332952020-08-21 Perinatal HIV Transmission Prevention: Challenges among Women Living with HIV in sub-Saharan Africa Armstrong-Mensah, Elizabeth Ruiz, Krystal Fofana, Aminata Hawley, Victoria Int J MCH AIDS Commentary | Perinatal HIV Transmission About 86 percent of the estimated 160,000 children newly-infected with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) live in sub-Saharan Africa. Despite global efforts to reduce perinatal HIV transmission, this phenomenon continues to be a public health problem in sub-Saharan Africa. This paper discusses challenges associated with perinatal HIV transmission prevention in sub-Saharan Africa and offers strategies for the way forward. These strategies include safe sex education and behavioral change, increased access to integrated antenatal care, training of unskilled traditional birth attendants into formal delivery systems, access to antiretroviral therapy, and investing in virologic testing. Global Health and Education Projects, Inc 2020 2020-08-09 /pmc/articles/PMC7433295/ /pubmed/32832201 http://dx.doi.org/10.21106/ijma.404 Text en Copyright © 2020 Armstrong-Mensah, et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Fofana, Aminata
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Perinatal HIV Transmission Prevention: Challenges among Women Living with HIV in sub-Saharan Africa
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title_full Perinatal HIV Transmission Prevention: Challenges among Women Living with HIV in sub-Saharan Africa
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title_sort perinatal hiv transmission prevention: challenges among women living with hiv in sub-saharan africa
topic Commentary | Perinatal HIV Transmission
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http://dx.doi.org/10.21106/ijma.404
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