AidsmapBotswana is testing almost all pregnant women for HIV when they register for antenatal care and retesting HIV-negative women on multiple occasions: every three months during pregnancy, at labour and delivery if there hasn’t been a recent test, six to eight weeks after birth, and every three months whilst breastfeeding.
What’s more, they are doing DNA PCR tests for infants at four-six weeks of age, retesting all breastfed babies who originally tested HIV negative six weeks after cessation of breastfeeding, and a final antibody test at 18-24 months. Eldah Dintwa from Botswana’s Ministry of Health and Wellness told the INTEREST 2022 conference in Kampala that the goal of the country is to reduce mother-to-child transmission to less than 1% by 2024.
Read the full story at Aidsmap.
Source : Aidsmap
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