Across the world, governments are scaling up national programs to prevent vertical transmission.The aim of the scale up is to meet the Global Plan targets to eliminate new infections in children by 2015 and keep their mothers alive. However, systemic barriers that prevent women living with HIV from accessing reproductive and maternal health services or adhering to drug and feeding regimens still pose the biggest threat to efforts to end vertical transmission, and may lead them to drop out of prevention of vertical transmission programs in spite of the science and tools to bring about success.… Read more