Women's Health

New Initiative Will Treat Women And Children With HIV/AIDS

Published in AIDS Weekly, January 7th, 2002

Private foundations are expected to commit $100 million in new funding for the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation (EGPAF) to link prevention and care of HIV/AIDS in developing countries through an unprecedented move to bring support and treatments to thousands of infected people.

The project, MTCT-Plus, will build care and support for women and children with HIV onto current programs to prevent mother-to-child transmission of HIV. The MTCT-Plus strategy recognizes the rapidly increasing opportunities in HIV care, even in very difficult circumstances, as drug prices have plummeted and programs have begun to ready themselves for service delivery. Acting as a...

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Source: AIDS Weekly (2002-01-07)

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