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Correspondence: Elaine Abrams, ICAP at Columbia University, Mailman School of Public Health, 722 West 168th Street, New York, NY 10032, USA. eja1@columbia.edu; phone 212-342-054; fax 212 342 1824

Author contributions: Drs. Devasena Gnanashanmugam and Natella Rakhmanina have led writing of the manuscript. Drs. Keith Crawford, Steve Nesheim and Elaine Abrams provided significant contribution to the design of this paper, the key themes and messages to convey, and to the design and execution of the workshop from which the material arises.

These authors also provided significant critical review of all the data arising from the states and regions within the US and intellectual content for the paper. All authors above approve of the manuscript and agree to be accountable for all aspects of the work related to its accuracy or integrity.

Drs. Patrick Jean-Philippe, Lakshmi Jayashankar, Patricia D’Souza, Joseph Fitzgibbon, Keith Crawford, and Rohan Hazra all provided substantial contributions to the design of material in this submission, the key themes and messages to be conveyed, and to the design and execution of the workshop from which the material arises.

These authors also contributed to providing content for this paper and to significant critical review. All authors above approve of the manuscript and agree to be accountable for all aspects of the work related to its accuracy or integrity.

Drs. Theodore Ruel, Guthrie Birkhead, Rana Chakraborty, Robert Lawrence, Anne Statton, Ashley Hoover, Barbara Warren and Somer Smith all provided critical regional content for this work reflecting practices and challenges in perinatal HIV prevention within the United States.

All authors listed here contributed to drafting the manuscript. All authors above approve of the manuscript and agree to be accountable for all aspects of the work related to its accuracy or integrity.

We express our gratitude to Arthur Stone, Scientific Writer, NIAID, who provided scientific writing for the workshop; and to Anitra Denson. MD, MPH, Perinatal Coordinator HIV/AIDS, Hepatitis, STD and TB Administration, DC Department of Health; Cheryl Ward, Department of Health, Illinois, and Pascale Wortley, Department of Public Health, Georgia, for their reviews.

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No funding was secured for this study.

Keywords:

  • Science & Technology
  • Life Sciences & Biomedicine
  • Immunology
  • Infectious Diseases
  • Virology
  • HIV transmission
  • perinatal
  • United States
  • To child transmission
  • Combination antiretroviral
  • Missed opportunities
  • Prevention
  • Infection

Eliminating perinatal HIV in the United States: mission possible?

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Journal Title:

AIDS

Volume:

Volume 33, Number 3

Publisher:

, Pages 377-385

Type of Work:

Article | Post-print: After Peer Review

Abstract:

In 2015, only 53 infants born in the United States acquired HIV - the lowest recorded number of perinatal HIV infections. Recognizing this significant achievement, we must acknowledge that the United States has not yet reached the goal of eliminating perinatal HIV transmission. This analysis describes different approaches to perinatal HIV preventive services among five states and the District of Columbia as case studies. Continuous focus on improving identification, surveillance and prevention of HIV infection in pregnant women and their infants is necessary to reach the goal of eliminating perinatal HIV transmission in the United States.

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This is an Open Access work distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
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