Thursday, December 27, 2012

Jamaica on track to eliminating mother to child HIV transmission by 2015

Jamaica says it intends to eliminate mother to child transmission of the Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) and syphilis in Jamaica by 2015.

The government of Jamaica has since launched the National Paediatric AIDS Elimination Initiative that Health Minister Dr. Fenton Ferguson says will seek to ensure that the rate of mother to child transmission of HIV is equal to, or less than, two percent (0.3 cases per 1000 live births); and the incidence of congenital syphilis equal to, or less

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