Prevention of mother-to-child HIV transmission: Can we meet the goal of global elimination of new pediatric infections?

摘要

One of the greatest public health success stories has been the development and implementation of interventions to prevent mother-to-child HIV transmission (PMTCT). In the USA and other high-resource countries, mother-to-child HIV transmission (MTCT) has been nearly eliminated. From a global perspective, UNAIDS has set a goal of 'virtual elimination' of MTCT worldwide by 2015 [1]. This series of papers considers the current status of PMTCT in both high and low-resource settings and critically examines what will be needed to reach this elimination goal.