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| The Odessa +PMTCT+ Model: A Replicable Reorganization of the Healthcare Delivery System for the Effective Prevention of HIV Transmission to Infants in Resource-limited Settings in Eurasia | |
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Author(s): | S. Posokhova, N. Nizova, G. Tyapkin, et al. |
Document type: | Abstracts |
Language: | English, Russian |
Original language of document: | English |
Publication date: | 2004 |
Primary area(s) of focus: | HIV/AIDS |
Material written specifically for patients: | No |
Date of entry: | June 10, 2004 |
| HIV infection is growing rapidly in Ukraine; by 2010 it is predicted that 1.44 million people (3% of the total population, 48.4 million in 2001) will be infected with the virus. Currently Ukraine has the highest HIV prevalence rate in the region, estimated at 1% of the adult population. From 1998 to 2002, the number of new HIV cases reported in pregnant Ukrainian women rose from 686 to 2,022. Currently two-thirds of all children born to HIV+ mothers in WHO’s European Region are delivered in Ukraine. In 2002, in Ukraine, 1,379 children were born to HIV+ women a 90% increase from the 727 cases reported in 2000., 1 p. | |
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