The Global Health eLearning Center is pleased to offer this course on Mother-To-Child-Transmission of HIV. This course presents the basic elements of preventing mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT) that expand across the continuum of care – during antenatal, intrapartum, postpartum, and newborn care – and highlights key elements that must be addressed in programs.

Image Source: T Tirabassi/CCP adapted from B Deller. Graphic showing the cascade of stages in the PMTCT process
This course:
  • Identifies the scope of the problem of HIV-infected infants who have become infected through transmission from their mothers

  • Explains the modes of transmission from mother to infant

  • Discusses the clinical association between HIV and malaria in the pregnant woman

  • Discusses the role of family planning in reducing MTCT of HIV
The HIV Basics (Part 1) Global Health eLearning course is a prerequisite for this course.

Knowledge for Health Project, The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Center for Communication Programs (CCP), Family Health International(FHI), Management Sciences for Health (MSH), With IT Support from Google.

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