Fewer mothers pass HIV to babies
By Wang Xiaodong | China Daily | Updated: 2015-09-18 07:42
Most now receive antiretroviral drugs, and free treatment is increasing in $940m program
HIV infection rates among infants born to HIV-positive women in China have dropped by more than 80 percent in the past decade due to effective intervention, says a report by the National Health and Family Planning Commission.
In 2014 alone, through prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV, 1,240 Chinese children who would otherwise have been infected with HIV were born free of the virus, according to the report, which was released this week.
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