Programme Recommendations for the Prevention of Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV: A Practical Guide for Managers

This guide provides specific information for improving and scaling-up prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV (PMTCT) programs, based on what program managers and evaluators identify as successful strategies. The guide is intended for use by national-level PMTCT teams for starting or scaling up PMTCT programs. With appropriate adaptation, national officials can disseminate the guide to district level authorities, site managers, and health workers.

The recommendations in this guide draw on this body of knowledge, including primarily from an IATT-commissioned evaluation of the eleven pilot projects, carried out by the Population Council between March and December 2002 in close consultation with UNICEF and other Inter-Agency Task Team (IATT) members. Sources include progress reports from the country pilots, interviews, rapid assessments in Rwanda and Zambia and discussions at a collaborative analysis meeting held in December 2002.