Category: Mother To Child Transmission Prevention
Preventing death in childbirth
This article is from the New York Times. Pregnancy and childbirth kill more than 536,000 women a year, more than half of them in Africa, according to the World Health Organization.
In April 2009, GAIA volunteer Rebecca Gerber brought an ultrasound machine to Mali. GAIA VF is Part of the Solution. We Take Action.
What GAIA VF does that others don’t
Since 2005, GAIA VF has been providing Mother to Child HIV Transmission Prevention in Mali, West Africa.
This is the simplest, most direct means of preventing HIV. It is also incredibly low cost.
GLOBAL: Group Says Infants Needlessly Get HIV
Boston Globe (05.22.09) – Friday, May 22, 2009
Marilyn Chase, Bloomberg News