Mother-to-child HIV transmission rate falling, but more can be done
Thursday, July 22, 2010 - 16:49
in Health & Medicine
Transmission of HIV to children before or at birth has dropped dramatically around the country in the last decade since the advent of powerful new therapies. That certainly is true for Florida, where each year, fewer than 10 babies are born with the disease despite the fact that more than 600 HIV-positive women each year, on average, give birth.