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Thailand eliminates mother-to-child HIV transmission

Thailand has become the first country in Asia to officially be certified free of the transmission of HIV and syphilis from mothers to their children, the World Health Organisation announced.

Elimination of transmission is the reduction of spread to such a low level — transmission rate below two per cent — that it no longer constitutes a public health problem.

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