Ideas & Impact › Resources › Challenges in the Elimination of Pediatric HIV-1 Infection

Preventing mother-to-child transmission of HIV-1 requires a series of steps in the care of women and their infants during pregnancy, delivery, and the postpartum period. This review outlines the steps and summarizes progress in resource-limited countries and elsewhere.

Read More

Explore Related Resources

Search More Resources

Issue Briefs

Accelerating Progress to Ending Pediatric HIV

Published March 2026

We are at a critical inflection point for children affected by HIV. In 2024 alone, 120,000 children were newly infected, and, without timely treatment, half of HIV positive infants will not reach their second birthday. Children remain left behind—a child with HIV is 6 times more likely to die than an adult without timely diagnosis. […]

Topics:

HIV,

Pediatric HIV

Countries:

Global

Resource

Protecting Lives, Sustaining Progress

Published March 2026

The following landscape analysis of maternal and child health, HIV prevention, diagnosis, and treatment, and the historic strength of U.S. leadership in global aid provides an overview of these key areas of global health and recommendations for U.S. Congressional engagement and prioritization.

Topics:

Advocacy,

Children,

Global Health Security,

Health System Strengthening,

HIV,

Maternal and Child Health,

Mothers and Infants,

Women

Journal Articles

An integrated, multidisciplinary management team intervention to improve patient‑centeredness, HIV, and maternal‑child outcomes in Lesotho

Published December 2024

Background Reducing perinatal HIV transmission and optimizing maternal and child health (MCH) outcomes in high HIV prevalence settings is an urgent, but complex, priority. Extant interventions over-emphasize individual-level provider and patient behaviors, and neglect critical health systems-level changes. The ‘Integrated Management Team to Improve Maternal-Child Outcomes (IMPROVE)’ study implemented a three-part, patient-centered, health-systems- level intervention […]

Topics:

Maternal and Child Health

Countries:

Lesotho