PMTCT overview : current scale-up efforts and challenges in operations and implementation Overview (original) (raw)

Background In 2010, the International AIDS Society (IAS)-Industry Liaison Forum (ILF) jointly with UNICEF and 14 other organizations (including WHO, UNAIDS, pharmaceutical companies, non-governmental organizations and community groups) released a consensus statement Asking the Right Questions: Advancing an HIV Research Agenda for Women and Children, which outlined 20 recommendations to advance HIV research for women and children. There are four specific recommendations (16-19) within that statement on conducting operational research in the prevention of mother to child transmission (PMTCT), which reflect the outcome of a high-level consultation led by UNICEF. As part of a continuing effort to promote HIV research according to the consensus statement, the ILF and UNICEF organised a satellite session at the 6 th IAS Conference on HIV Pathogenesis, Treatment and Prevention (IAS 2011), entitled " Operational and Implementation Challenges in Scaling up PMTCT Programmes in Resource-l...