Treatment Action Campaign - Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission

Submission on Draft Guidelines for the Management of HIV in Health Facilities

moderator — Fri, 16 May 2008 09:36:46 +0200

TAC has a made a submission to the Department of Health (DoH) and the South African National AIDS Council (SANAC) on the new draft DoH Guidelines on the Management of HIV in Health Facilities (Guidelines). The submission presented yesterday (16 May) by Zackie Achmat at a meeting of SANAC's Techinal Task Team on HIV Treatment, Care and Support. Later this month the submission will also be presented at the SANAC Plenary.

Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission Protocol Released

moderator — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 00:00:00 +0200

The Department of Health has finally released the new prevention of mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT) protocol. It can be downloaded here.

TAC welcomes the improvements over the old protocol. We urge health facilities with capacity to begin implementing it.

Read our statement of 30 January which explains what we are pleased about and what our concerns are with the new protocol.