Global (AIDS/HIV)

HIV Babies Numerous in Developing World

Published in Medical Letter on the CDC and FDA, September 15th, 1997

Giving pregnant U.S. women the AIDS drug AZT has reduced HIV infections in their children dramatically, but 1,000 HIV positive babies are born every day in the developing world, experts said.

They told an international conference it was urgent to translate the U.S. success into a global policy to stop babies from being born with HIV.

"We can't assume that dramatic national control of HIV transmission from mothers to infants means we have the situation under control," Arthur Ammann, American Foundation for AIDS Research (AmFAR), told the conference.

More than 830,000 children around the world have become infected with the virus,...

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