Research conducted for Missing the Target 7 by civil society activists on-the- ground in six countries (Argentina, Cambodia, Moldova, Morocco, Uganda, and Zimbabwe) shows that efforts to prevent vertical transmission are failing to reach the very group it was designed for—HIV-positive pregnant women. One of the key reasons for this failure is that the emphasis of many country programmes has been narrowly focussed on providing antiretroviral prophylaxis to prevent the transmission of HIV to newborns and not on the other essentials - prevention, counselling, care and treatment services for women and children. Women’s right to sexual and.
