Prevention of mother-to-child HIV transmission encompasses various strategies for reducing risk of HIV transmission from mother to infant during pregnancy, labor, delivery, or breastfeeding. Antiretroviral treatment can reduce the risk of vertical transmission to less than 5 percent, but many pregnant HIV-positive women are not retained in care throughout the prenatal period and beyond. SOAR is testing programmatic approaches to improve maternal and fetal outcomes and minimize attrition of HIV-positive mothers and their babies throughout the prenatal and postnatal periods.
Activities
- Active Pediatric HIV Case Finding in Kenya and Uganda
- Assessing the Feasibility, Acceptability, and Costs of Diagnosing HIV at Birth in Lesotho and Rwanda
- Evaluating a Multidisciplinary Integrated Management Team Intervention to Improve Maternal-Child Outcomes and HIV Service Uptake and Retention in Lesotho
- Evaluating Community-facility Linkage Models to Promote Mother-infant Retention Along the HIV Care Continuum in Malawi
- Family Planning among Female Sex Workers Living with HIV in Tanzania