Cuba, Health Development: Elimination Of Hiv/Aids Transmission And Syphilis From Mother To Son

Cuba, Health Development: Elimination of HIV/AIDS Transmission and Syphilis from Mother to Son

HIV is a virus that affects body immunology, which is subsequently developed as AIDS, which can be treated but has no cure;On the other hand, syphilis is an infection given by bacteria this can have a treatment and if it has a cure, the two are part of the STDs (sexually transmitted diseases) then if a woman is in a state of gestation and is the bearer of these infections the fetus also the fetus alsoIt can acquire such disease and even pregnancy would not develop normally;However, as an important and historical finding, it has been possible to eliminate the transmission of HIV from mother to child as well as the control of syphilis infection.

Cuba becomes the first country to eliminate this transmission from mother to child which is being developed with projects that were focused on the well -being and protection of the people and occurs historically through forums, programs and congresses.

Thus, in 1970 the application of the “Infant Mortality Reduction Program” began and the congenital syphilis prevention program with actions governed to control, notification and treatment of sexual contacts, the study is extended to pregnant women which achievesReduce the incidence in the spread of the disease.

In the coming years, congresses, courses and programs were carried out that had the purpose of prevention and be aware about these sexually transmitted diseases, which would avoid the spread of several infants.

Product of efficient and sustained work has been achieved lower rates in the spread of HIV and congenital syphilis. Programs results: the mortality rate by syphilis descended from 0.3 x 100 thousand inhabitants in 1970;and at 0.0 x 100 thousand inhabitants in 2014. The incidence of congenital syphilis ranged between 0 and 0.04 per 1000 live births. The transmission "Mother-child/HIV-AIDS", less than 0.5 x 1000 live births.

The number of children born every year with HIV has been reduced almost halfway since 2009, after 400.000 to 240.000 In 2013, a figure far from the objective of less than 40.000 new children’s infections per year for 2015. 

The probability that a pregnant woman infected with HIV who does not take antiretroviral treatment transmits infection to the fetus or child during childbirth or breastfeeding is 15 to 45%. On the other hand, if you take these drugs, the risk is reduced to about 1%.

Such discoveries in the health area have allowed the life of many neonates and newborns to safeguard, preventing their mothersEach of its stages of life, also encourage the research to be able to generate new contributions and a possible cure to HIV/AIDS.