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Fewer mothers pass HIV to babies

By Wang Xiaodong | China Daily | Updated: 2015-09-18 07:42

Most now receive antiretroviral drugs, and free treatment is increasing in $940m program

HIV infection rates among infants born to HIV-positive women in China have dropped by more than 80 percent in the past decade due to effective intervention, says a report by the National Health and Family Planning Commission.

In 2014 alone, through prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV, 1,240 Chinese children who would otherwise have been infected with HIV were born free of the virus, according to the report, which was released this week.

Fewer mothers pass HIV to babies

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