PMTCT

On Wednesday, March 4th, 2015, the Inter-agency Task Team on the Prevention and Treatment of HIV Infection in Pregnant Women, Mothers and Children (IATT) hosted a webinar on Early Lessons Learned from Option B+ Implementation in Tanzania. The webinar featured a presentation by Dr. Prosper Pendo Njau, Senior Epidemiologist for the national PMTCT programme and the PMTCT team of the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare (MOHSW).

On September 17, 2015 the Inter-Agency Task Team (IATT) on Children and HIV and AIDS partner, Population Council, presented their latest research on a multicountry PMTCT cascade analysis conducted in Rwanda, Kenya, Swaziland and  Malawi as part of the USAID-funded HIV Core Project. The presentation slides and summary can be found below.

On April 2, 2015, the Inter-Agency Task Team (IATT) on Children and HIV and AIDS presented on CROI 2015. The presentations can be found below.

On August 13, 2015, the Inter-Agency Task Team (IATT) on Children and AIDS partner, WHO, presented on the 2015 updates for HIV/AIDS guidelines.

On July 13, 2015, the IATT hosted a webinar with WHO, PAHO and the Ministry of Health of Cuba to discuss the validation process for the dual elimination of MTCT of HIV and syphilis. A total of 68 participants joined the webinar from a range of countries including China, Ethiopia, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Namibia and Nigeria. Below are links to the webinar presentations, virtual discussion summary and Q&A transcript.  

A total of 72 participants from China, Côte d’Ivoire, Djibouti, Madagascar, Mozambique, Namibia, Nepal, Panama, Senegal, South Africa, Zimbabwe and many other countries attended the webinar to learn about the validation criteria for elimination of mother-to-child transmission (MTCT) of HIV and syphilis, as well as pre-elimination criteria, from World Health Organization (WHO) representatives.

The EMTCT French Webinar was held on April 24, 2016 and had more than 60 participants from various countries. The webinar focused on EMTCT in Africa and the implementation of Option B+ in Malawi.

 WHO Consolidated Guidelines - IATT Webinar, 2016

Presented on August 11, 2016

A total of 76 participants from Jamaica, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Uganda, Malawi, Lesotho, Sudan, Panama and many other countries attended the IATT webinar on August 11 to learn about the use of PrEP (pre-exposure prophylaxis) during pregnancy.

The links to the presentations and webinar summary are below.