This article is part of the supplement: Fourth Dominique Dormont International Conference. Maternal chronic viral infections transmitted to infants: from mechanisms to prevention and care

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Great challenges to PMTCT in the South: the role of the developed nations in supporting strategies that work

Dorothy Onyango

Women fighting AIDS in Kenya (WOFAK), 00200 Nairobi, Kenya

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Retrovirology 2008, 5(Suppl 1):L1doi:10.1186/1742-4690-5-S1-L1

Published:	9 April 2008

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Prevention of mother to child transmission of HIV (PMTCT) has continued to gain immense significance in the fields of HIV prevention and care, mostly in the last 10 years. This significance has come about due to the growing recognition that HIV is not only in blood and sexual fluids but also in breast milk. The fact that over 58% of all infections in sub-Saharan Africa are found among women in reproductive ages (19–49 years) makes PMTCT a life and death subject.