Virtual workshop on postnatal prophylaxis to reach elimination of HIV vertical transmission: optimizing research and accelerating access to innovation

Overview

Despite decades of progress in reducing the rates of vertical transmission, children continue to acquire HIV. Options for more effective regimens to prevent HIV infection among infants have been considered and a number of innovative strategies hold promise to substantially transform postnatal prophylaxis so that elimination of HIV vertical transmission can be achieved.

This meeting report synthetizes the outcomes of a workshop held in 2021 by IMPAACT and WHO to achieve consensus on the approach to investigating innovative strategies to prevent HIV vertical transmission perinatally and in the postnatal period and establish the next steps for implementing such studies.