ReviewInternational journal of women's health2022
Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV Through Breastfeeding Improving Awareness and Education: A Short Narrative Review.
Review in International journal of women's health, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 19 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
19 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 28 citations in OpenAlex.
- Acceptability, Needs, Concerns, and Barriers to Digital-Based Interventions for the Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV: Systematic Review and Qualitative Meta-Aggregation.JMIR medical informatics · 2025Pooled it
- Interventions to prevent mother-to-child transmission in breastfeeding mothers with HIV: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials.Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo · 2024Pooled it
- Bibliometric review of worldwide scientific literature on mother-to-child transmission of HIV (1980-2023).Medicine · 2026Review
- Breast milk antibody Fc signatures track with HIV transmission during breastfeeding in ART-naïve mothers.iScience · 2026Article
- Advancing the inclusion of pregnant and lactating populations in HIV PrEP research: ethical, regulatory, and surveillance recommendations from a multisectoral working group.Frontiers in public health · 2026Article
- Managers perspectives on the implementation of the Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission policy in South Africa.Journal of public health in Africa · 2026Article
- "ProTeggiMI": Adherence to HIV Vertical Transmission Prevention Pathway in Remote Communities in Mozambique.Open forum infectious diseases · 2025Article
- Gut microbiota of sub-Saharan Africa infants exposed to antiretroviral therapy: Scoping review.African journal of primary health care & family medicine · 2025Article
- Long-Acting Injectable Antiretroviral Drugs for Pregnant and Breastfeeding Women: Current Advances, Challenges, and Future Directions.Current HIV/AIDS reports · 2025Review
- Balancing Breastfeeding and HIV Management in Africa: Addressing the Challenges of Mother-to-Child Transmission.Maternal-fetal medicine (Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc.) · 2025Article
- Children and adolescents living with human immunodeficiency virus/acquired immunodeficiency syndrome in a tertiary hospital in southern Brazil.Revista paulista de pediatria : orgao oficial da Sociedade de Pediatria de Sao Paulo · 2025Observational
- Adherence, perceptions and knowledge of an HIV PMTCT programme: A mother-baby pair study.Southern African journal of HIV medicine · 2025Article
- IAPSM Position Paper on Vertical Transmission of HIV from Mother to Child.Indian journal of community medicine : official publication of Indian Association of Preventive & Social Medicine · 2024Article
- Using PBPK modeling to supplement clinical data and support the safe and effective use of dolutegravir in pregnant and lactating women.CPT: pharmacometrics & systems pharmacology · 2024Article
- Womandla Health: development and rationale of a behavioral intervention to support HIV treatment adherence among postpartum women in South Africa.BMC women's health · 2023Article
- Breast Milk: A Potential Route of Tick-Borne Encephalitis Virus Transmission from Mother to Infant.Cureus · 2023Review
- Knowledge Gaps and Current Evidence Regarding Breastfeeding Issues in Mothers with Chronic Diseases.Nutrients · 2023Review
- Eliminating mother-to-child transmission of HIV in Tanzania calls for efforts to address factors associated with a low confirmatory test.PLOS global public health · 2023Article
- Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
1 author.
Funding
No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.
Abstract
Despite critical progress registered in the reduction of mother to child transmission (MTCT) of HIV worldwide, transmission through breastfeeding still contributes to almost 50% of pediatric HIV infections recorded every year. In this short narrative review, after development of an extensive background on HIV and breastfeeding, some directions are suggested to address the key bottlenecks. Specifically, reinforcing the prevention of MTCT through breastfeeding (BF) in order to move towards elimination of MTCT prior to 2030 may require, among others strategies: tracking all women of child bearing age through HIV testing, improving testing and retesting of women during pregnancy and breastfeeding, strengthening adherence on antiretroviral therapy (ART) among pregnant and lactating women, ensuring continuum and retention in care of mother and baby-pairs up to 24 months, switching ART in non-viral suppressed mothers after improvement of adherence counseling. In addition, due to the burden of seroconversion during pregnancy or thereafter through BF, pre-exposure prophylaxis (PreP) for most at risk women should be implemented urgently. The opportunity to extend the infant prophylaxis to the whole lactating period should be assessed to address residual transmission amongst viral suppressed mothers.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.