This article reviews the role of antiretroviral therapy as prophylaxis against vertical HIV-1 transmission. Both the PACTG 076 regimen and the various shortcourse zidovudine and nevirapine ...

Background: São Paulo State has been a pioneer in adopting measures for prevention of mother-tochild transmission (MTCT ... Reported AIDS cases in children under five is a useful proxy for ...

Wazed informed that despite treatments, the region also has a high burden (80,000 children and adolescents aged 0-14) due to vertical transmission ... in reducing HIV/AIDS rates through strong ...

47,508 people are now living with HIV/AIDS in the state after the death of 12,629 people. The number of vertical transmission of HIV from mother to child is 394. While youths accounted for 37 per ...

The rate of vertical transmission of HIV-1 has fallen from over 20% to 3-10% in most industrialized countries since PACTG 076 was published and the regimen used was adopted as part of prenatal ...