Preventing Unintended Pregnancies: An Essential Component for the Prevention of Mother to Child Transmission of HIV
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Contraception is the best kept secret for prevention of mother-to-child HIV transmission.
We commend Stringer et al. for addressing the importance of developing and implementing a monitoring and evaluation model for measuring the effectiveness of prevention of motherto-child HIV transmission (PMTCT) programmes.1 We also recommend broadening our PMTCT lexicon and developing additional metrics for preventing both HIV acquisition by uninfected women and unintended pregnancies among HIV...
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