Born free of HIV
World Health Organisation - "Yunaisy found out she was HIV-positive before her third pregnancy, during a routine check-up at the Bernardo Posse health center in the San Miguel del Padrón district of Havana, Cuba. Knowing that she was living with HIV did not stop her from wanting to have another baby. “All I wanted was for my baby to be born healthy,” she says. And he was.
The doctors and nurses who attended her followed a series of steps to prevent transmission of the HIV virus to her baby during pregnancy, childbirth, and lactation. After testing for and confirming the virus, they prescribed antiretroviral therapy and, with her consent, scheduled a caesarean section for her 38th week of pregnancy. (...)
In Cuba, less than 2% of children whose mothers have HIV are born with the virus, the lowest rate possible with prevention methods available today. As a result, Cuba recently received formal validation from PAHO/WHO that it has eliminated mother-to-child transmission of HIV." (30 June 2015)
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