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From: HIV prevention is not enough: child survival in the context of prevention of mother to child HIV transmission

Figure 2

Why treating only women with low CD4 counts reduces postnatal HIV transmission. Panel A - Postnatal HIV transmission rates in the population are an average of low rates among women with high CD4 counts and high rates among women with low CD4 counts. Panel B - When antiretroviral therapy is given to women with low CD4 counts, the postnatal HIV transmission rate in this group, and in the overall population, declines to low levels.

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