The two districts were recognised at the launch of the three-month \u2018Free To Shine Rwanda\u2019 campaign aiming at ending new HIV infections in children and keeping their mothers alive. <\/p>\n
The Catalytic Framework developed in 2015 at the continental level seeks to provide a framework and guide AIDS response efforts, with an emphasis on the elimination of mother to child transmission. Moreover, the national campaign for the elimination of mother-to-child transmission launched in 2011 set up the ambitious targets to reduce mother-to-child transmission in Rwanda from 4.3% in 2011, to less than 2.0% in 2015.<\/p>\n
In constant improvement, Rwanda\u2019s national HIV response has offered a comprehensive care package including HIV screening during antenatal care, HIV screening in the postpartum period for both mothers and HIV exposed children, nutritional support for mothers and infants and paediatric treatment protocols. Furthermore, increased decentralisation of HIV prevention and treatment services to the lowest level of health service delivery has enabled greater uptake, adherence and engagement.<\/p>\n
Through the extension and improvement of prevention initiatives, treatment protocols and guidelines, and attention to equity, Rwanda\u2019s current MTCT rate is 1.5% (2018). <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The districts of Karongi from Western Province and Burera from Northern Province registered zero HIV transmission from mothers to their children in the past five years as the MTCT rate at the national level dropped to 1.5 percent as of June 2018. The rate is far below the targeted 5.0 percent at the cessation of breastfeeding.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-38146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38146\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38146"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=38146"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=38146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}