Interventions to prevent mother to child HIV transmission
interventions to prevent mother-to-child transmission of HIV
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Interventions which can be used to reduce the vertical transmission include:
- maternal antiretroviral therapy
- antiretroviral monotherapy
- combination antiretroviral therapy
- intrapartum antiretroviral therapy
- pre-labour, pre-rupture of membranes caesarean section
- infant antiretroviral therapy prophylaxis
- formula feeding rather than breastfeeding
- maternal antiretroviral therapy during breastfeeding
- infant nevirapine therapy during breastfeeding
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