Prevention of HIV Transmission from Mother to Child: Strategic options (Best Practice - Key Material) (UNAIDS, 1999, 24 p.): (introduction...)

Prevention of HIV Transmission from Mother to Child: Strategic options (Best Practice - Key Material) (UNAIDS, 1999, 24 p.)

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1. Introduction

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1.1 The risk of MTCT

1.2 Prevention strategies

1.3 The cost of inaction

2. Major issues for decision-making

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2.1 Counselling and voluntary testing

2.2 Stigma and discrimination

2.3 Health care systems

2.4 Replacement feeding

3. Pilot projects

4. The wider benefits of the package of interventions

5. Questions of ethics

6. Affordability and cost-effectiveness of the strategy

7. A decision tree

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UNAIDS
Geneva, Switzerland
1999

UNAIDS/99.40E (English original, August 1999)

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