A mother enrolled in the Kabeho study holds her child while listening to Juliette Mukayinga, a research nurse, as she asks questions at the Remera Health Center in Kigali, Rwanda. Mothers meet with their respective study nurses once a month to answer a series of questions about their health and their child's health and nutrition.
The Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation is partnered with the Rwandan government to study the prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV in 608 HIV+ mothers and their children. The results of the Kabeho study could mean a revamping of public health policies around the world and thousands more children living an HIV-free life. Globally, nearly 700 children become infected with HIV daily. About 90% of those infections are from mother-to-child-transmission, in which the virus is passed from an HIV positive mother during pregnancy, childbirth or breastfeeding.
Photo by Laura Elizabeth Pohl for the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation
