Health Ministry seeks to protect mothers and infants from HIV “time bomb”
05 May 2014, 10:10 PM
Lucy Lovell
New guidelines on preventing the transfer of HIV from mother to child will come into effect from Wednesday (May 7 2014), Ministry of Health and Gender has said.
The national guideline on prevention of mother to child transmission of HIV is underpinned by a need to equip the Maldives for what the Health Protection Agency has termed an HIV “time bomb.”
Programme Coordinator for the Reproductive Health Unit Naseera Nazeed has urged all pregnant women to get tested in their first semester.
“There is very high chance of saving the baby – 90% – if they are checked,” she said.
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