South Africa: Women Still Falling Through PMTCT Cracks

South Africa has charted steady and significant decreases in mother-to-child HIV transmission rates in recent years but prevention of mother-to-child HIV (PMTCT) campaigns may still be starting HIV-positive mothers on treatment too late.

Shamiso Mavuvho is eight months pregnant with her fourth child. She lives in the Zama-Zama informal settlement about ten kilometres outside Pretoria where there is no running water, no electricity and no clinic.

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