MTCT: – Mother to Child Transmission
Mother to child transmission and it is abbreviated as MTCT. It is also referred to as vertical transmission, and it is responsible for the vast majority of new infections in children.
Prevention of mother to child transmission or PMTCT which is programs that provide Antiretroviral Treatment or ART to HIV positive pregnant ladies to prevent their babies from acquiring the infection. Without treatment, the probability of HIV increases as it goes from mother to child is 1
It is found that approximately 1.6 million new HIV infections which are among the children have been prevented and decreased since 1995 because of the implementation of prevention of MTCT services. Of these, there is an estimate of 1.3 million which have been turned away in the five years, somewhere in the range of 2010 and 2015.
