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 Question: If a mother is HIV positive and pregnant, will her baby be born HIV positive too?

  • A. Yes
  • B. No
 
Answer: With treatment, B
 

The likelihood of mother-to-child transmission, in which an HIV-positive mother transmits HIV to her child during pregnancy, breastfeeding, or delivery, ranges from 15% to 45% in the absence of medical intervention. With access to appropriate treatment and care throughout pregnancy and the first year of a child’s life, this rate can be reduced to below 5%. Most pregnant women have between ten and 15 prenatal visits.

Source

 

  1. WHO 2012: http://www.who.int/hiv/topics/mtct/en/

 

For more information, go to everymothercounts.org

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