Is elimination of vertical transmission of HIV in high prevalence settings achievable?

Ameena Goga; Yagespari Singh; Debra Jackson; Yogan Pillay; Sanjana Bhardwaj; Witness Chirinda; Chika Hayashi; Shaffiq Essajee; Priscilla Idele

doi:10.1136/bmj.l687

Is elimination of vertical transmission of HIV in high prevalence settings achievable?

BMJ. 2019 Mar 26:364:l687. doi: 10.1136/bmj.l687.

Authors

Ameena Goga^{1

2}, Yagespari Singh³, Debra Jackson^{4

5}, Yogan Pillay⁶, Sanjana Bhardwaj⁷, Witness Chirinda³, Chika Hayashi⁸, Shaffiq Essajee⁵, Priscilla Idele⁹

Affiliations

¹ Health Systems Research Unit, South African Medical Research Council, South Africa [email protected].
² Department of Paediatrics, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa.
³ Health Systems Research Unit, South African Medical Research Council, South Africa.
⁴ School of Public Health, University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa.
⁵ Health Section, Unicef, New York, USA.
⁶ National Department of Health, Pretoria, South Africa.
⁷ Health Section, Unicef South Africa, Pretoria, South Africa.
⁸ Data and Analytics Section, Unicef, New York, USA.
⁹ Unicef Office of Research, Innocenti, Florence, Italy.

Abstract

Ameena Goga and colleagues argue that more realistic targets are needed to maintain momentum on reducing vertical transmission in countries with a high HIV prevalence

MeSH terms

Female
HIV Infections / diagnosis
HIV Infections / epidemiology
HIV Infections / prevention & control*
HIV Infections / transmission
Humans
Infant, Newborn
Infectious Disease Transmission, Vertical / prevention & control*
Infectious Disease Transmission, Vertical / statistics & numerical data
Pregnancy
Pregnancy Complications, Infectious / epidemiology
Prevalence