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South Africa’s plan to prevent
mother-to-child HIV transmission spared about 117,000 babies from contracting
the virus last year, Health Minister Aaron Motsoaledi said Thursday.
According to the Medical Research
Council, the proportion of HIV-positive mothers who passed the virus to their
babies fell from 8 percent in 2008, to 3.5 percent in 2010, to 2.7 percent in
2011. “These results, if sustained, will make a major contribution to our
efforts to decrease” the deaths of infants and young children, he said.
The Friends of AIDS Foundation is
dedicated to enhancing the quality of life for HIV positive individuals and
empowering people to make healthy choices to prevent the spread of the HIV
virus. To learn more about The Friends of AIDS Foundation, please visit: http://www.friendsofaids.org.
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