Author: Gloria Addo

The National AIDS Control Programme (NACP) has lamented the increasing number of mother-to-child HIV transmissions despite initiatives put in place to eliminate it, such as the Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission (PMTCT) program. The Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission (PMTCT) is one of the interventions instituted by the NACP, the Ghana AIDS Commission (GAC), and their partners to prevent HIV transmission from mothers to their babies. With this intervention, pregnant women would have to get tested for HIV at an Antenatal care service and those found positive would be put on medication to protect the baby from getting infected.           Programme Manager of…

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