The commitment of the international community and national governments to integrating PMTCT interventions into maternal and child health services and strengthening linkages to other health programmes, including other SRH programmes and HIV care, support, and treatment programmes, was more recently echoed in the Call to Action: Towards an HIV-Free and AIDS-Free Generation. The December 2005 Abuja Call to Action notes that “comprehensive PMTCT programs should include strategies to: prevent HIV transmission to women; provide reproductive health care to women living with HIV; prevent HIV trans- mission during pregnancy, labour and delivery; and minimise HIV transmission through safer infant practices”. .
