Mother-to-child HIV transmission in Gipuzkoa reduced significantly over last 25 years
Friday, November 29, 2013 - 12:30
in Health & Medicine
The evolution that took place between 1984 and 2011 in paediatric HIV infection in Gipuzkoa has been studied. The development of methods to diagnose the disease coupled with increasingly more effective treatments have made it possible to reduce mother-to-child transmission (vertical transmission) from 23.9% to 2.4%, thus virtually eradicating infection in children.