Preventing perinatal and infant HIV infection

Somewhere in the world a child dies of AIDS every minute of every day. Nearly all of these infants became infected with the virus that causes AIDS from their mothers before, during, or shortly after birth. As global rates of new HIV infections soar, millions of vulnerable women and their newborn infants remain in the path of this typhoon of misery. Evidence-based methods for protecting infants from mother-to-child HIV transmission are described.