Project profile — Interagency Task Team on HIV Prevention and Treatment in Women, Mothers and Children

The expected intermediate outcomes for this project include: improved prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV programmatic performance at regional and country levels; improved accountability to track progress towards the elimination of mother-to-child transmission at the global, regional and country levels; and strengthened Inter-Agency Task Team (IATT) working group collaboration.

Results achieved as of March 2013 include: This project has led to the launch of several key virtual platforms including the launch of the Inter-Agency Task Team (IATT) website in December 2012, with more than 6,500 visitors to date; increased the number of members in the elimination of Mother to Child Transmission of HIV (eMTCT) community of practice from 400 to 950; established a well-branded and attended virtual discussion and webinar series held on a monthly basis with an average of 50 participants per webinar; developed, launched, and disseminated a toolkit to guide countries transitioning to the new World Health Organization recommended treatment guidelines for the prevention of mother to child transmission of HIV (Option B+); and launched the eMTCT progress tracking dashboard featuring country progress toward Global Plan targets.