Africa: South Africa Isn't Doing Enough to Provide HIV Prevention Treatment for Mothers - Why It Needs to

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Africa: South Africa Isn't Doing Enough to Provide HIV Prevention Treatment for Mothers - Why It Needs to

[The Conversation Africa] A global target for the elimination of mother to child transmission of HIV globally was set in 2015. The ambitious target of the Joint United Nations Programme (UNAIDS) was to reduce new infant HIV infections by 75% by 2020. This is equivalent to reducing new infections to under 1%.

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