Poster reporter Liu Lu reported in Beijing
On May 30, the National Health Commission held a press conference. Wang Linhong, chief expert on chronic diseases at the Control Center, said that in order to maximize the protection of the health of HIV-infected women and their children, the prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV was integrated into maternal and child health care services 20 years ago, and the pilot program has gradually expanded nationwide. After 20 years of hard work, the detection rate of AIDS, syphilis and hepatitis B among pregnant women nationwide has reached over 99%. The mother-to-child transmission of HIV has dropped from 34.8% who did not take any intervention measures to the current 3.3%, which is a very significant achievement. It has made outstanding contributions to preventing and blocking new infections in children, and has also enabled more infected families to gain health. baby.
Wang Linhong introduced that in 2010, my country included mother-to-child transmission as a major national public health service project. On the basis of the original prevention of mother-to-child transmission of AIDS, the other two diseases, syphilis and hepatitis B, also affect children’s infection through mother-to-child transmission. mother-to-child transmission strategy.
Since 2015, the prevention of mother-to-child transmission of the “three diseases” has covered the whole country, and the prevention of mother-to-child transmission of AIDS has been organically combined with local maternal and child health. The service network provides HIV, syphilis, hepatitis B testing and counseling for the majority of pregnant women.
In addition, provide a series of intervention services such as health monitoring, early diagnosis and early treatment, and follow-up guidance for infected pregnant women and their children, and strive to make every possible examination and treatment. .