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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Jul 30.
Published in final edited form as: JAMA. 2015 Apr 21;313(15):1513–1514. doi: 10.1001/jama.2015.1382

Figure. Maternal ART Coverage Goal and Currently Achieved ART Coverage in PMTCT High-Burden Countries.

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ART indicates antiretroviral therapy; HIV, human immunodeficiency virus; PMTCT, perinatal mother-to-child transmission; WHO, World Health Organization. Because of issues of access and adherence, the maternal ART coverage goal to achieve less than 5%PMTCT (dotted line) well exceeds the currently achieved ART coverage. With this cascade of maternal ART coverage for prevention of PMTCT, 16%of HIV-1–infected women from PMTCT high-burden countries continue to transmit HIV-1 to their infants. Data sources are the UNAIDS 2014 Progress Report on the Global Plan Towards the Elimination of New HIV Infection Among Children by 2015 and Keeping Their Mothers Alive and the WHO Global Update on the Health Sector Response to HIV, 2014.

a Postpartum adherence was estimated using Malawi national PMTCT data for the fourth quarter of 2013, as reported in the Global Update on the Health Sector Response to HIV, 2014.