Fewer babies contract HIV

Dr Ameena Goga, who announced the results of the first national evaluation by the Medical Research Council of South Africa, said they found that about 3.5% of babies contracted HIV from their mothers in 2010, compared to 8% in 2008.

About a third of the women giving birth (31%) are HIV-positive, but very few of them are now passing the virus on to their babies as a result of the national prevention of mother to child transmission programme. Read on.