BANGKOK, 30 November 2018 (NNT) - The Department of Health plans to end the transmission of HIV and syphilis from mother to child by 2020.

Health Department Director General Phanphimol Wipulakorn said Thailand was awarded by the World Health Organization in 2016 for reducing maternal transmissions of HIV to less than two percent.

In 2018, only 1.68 percent was found and Thailand can maintain the quality of the operation to date. It was certified by the Global Validation Advisory Committee in Geneva, Switzerland, in June.

Thailand will be able to end the transmission of HIV and syphilis from mother to child by 2030 and to reduce it to less than one percent by 2020.


National News Bureau Of Thailand | Health Dept plans to end transmission of HIV, syphilis from mother to child by 2020