Cuba has turn into the first nation on the planet to forestall mother-to-kid transmission of HIV, the World Health Organization (WHO) reported in a news discharge Tuesday.
"This new approval procedure will assume a discriminating part in following and comprehension advance in the battle to end the AIDS pestilence, especially the same number of more nations, incorporating those in sub-Saharan Africa where the pediatric HIV/AIDS weight is the most astounding, are ready to experience the eMTCT (end of mother-to-tyke transmission of HIV) acceptance sooner rather than later," Stephen Lee, VP of project usage and nation administration at the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation (EGPAF), said in the news discharge.
The EGPAF, a support and examination gathering, backings more than 7,000 offices in 15 nations to execute avoidance, consideration and treatment administrations. The news discharge did not give subtle elements on the powerful counteractive action strategy executed.
As per the WHO, 35 million individuals were living with HIV/AIDS worldwide in 2013. Without transmission mediation, there is a 15 to 45 percent shot of mother-to-tyke transmission of HIV. With antiretroviral treatment, that hazard tumbles to underneath 1 percent, as indicated by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
From the begin of the scourge through 2009, the CDC assessed that more than 5,600 individuals who were determined to have AIDS under age 13 passed on in United States. Of the aggregate, almost 5,000, or 89 percent, of them were contaminated perinatally.
The CDC gauges that toward the end of 2012, 1.2 million individuals ages 13 and more seasoned were living with HIV in the United States, including more than 156,000 whose diseases had not been analyzed
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