Antiretroviral therapy
These revised recommendations emphasize the need to have a unified approach to preventing mother-to-child transmission throughout pregnancy, labour and delivery, postpartum, and the breastfeeding period.
For HIV infections in infants and children, WHO has issued revised guidelines to help health care experts in selecting the most potent and most feasible ART regimens appropriate for these two age groups. The guidelines, Antiretroviral therapy for HIV infection in infants and children: recommendations for a public health approach (2010 version), address HIV diagnosis and recommend treatment for infants and children who are co-infected with HIV and tuberculosis, or have been exposed to antiretrovirals, either for prevention of mother-to-child transmission or because of breastfeeding from an HIV-infected mother on ART.