New WHO strategy calls for elimination of HIV in children by
2015 21 April 2010 Preventing mother-to-child transmission of
HIV (PMTCT) is one of the key pillars in the worldwide response
to the AIDS epidemic and one of the priorities of UNAIDS
Secretariat and its Cosponsors. The World Health Organization
(WHO) has recently published a strategy paper outlining its
commitment to support country-level and global efforts to scale
up PMTCT services and to integrate such services into maternal,
newborn and child health programmes. Preventing mothers from
dying and babies from becoming infected with HIV is one of
UNAIDS’ key priority areas as outlined in its . The new PMTCT
strategic vision 2010–2015: preventing mother-to child
transmission of HIV to reach the UNGASS and Millennium
Development Goals, reflects an important part of WHO’s health
sector response to HIV and will contribute directly towards
achieving the results of the Outcome Framework. As a UNAIDS
cosponsor which co-leads efforts to prevent mother-to-ch