By Marie Rosenthal, MS
Despite the tremendous success of several programs to end vertical transmission of HIV, which prevented an estimated 3.4 million infections, about 130,000 infants around the world were born in 2022 with HIV. And that was 130,000 babies too many, said Dorothy Mbori-Ngacha, MBChB, MMed, MPH, a medical epidemiologist who specializes in pediatric HIV, and a former a senior HIV specialist for UNICEF’s global HIV/AIDS program.
“We estimate that [in 2022] 82% of