Traduction de «Transmission d'une mère infectée à son enfant » (Français → Anglais) :

transmission from an infected mother to her child

vertical transmission (mother-baby)

mother-to-child transmission | perinatal transmission | MTCT [Abbr.] | Petra [Abbr.]

(6) For the purposes of paragraph (5)(f), “dependent person” means, with respect to a person who was absent from Canada in any of the circumstances specified in paragraph (5)(a) or (b), that person’s father, mother, brother, sister, child or foster child or the father, mother, child or foster child of the person’s spouse or common-law partner.

One is vertical, from an infected mother to offspring, and there is a secondary horizontal or lateral form of transmission, which normally is associated with lambing or birthing and contact with infected fluids and placental material.

However, Canadian families have become quite resourceful at solving this problem: the mother can take her child to the office, as Michelle Dockrill has done; the mother can have her office in her home, as a number of writers do; the father can work during the day and the mother at night, and they can take turns looking after the baby at home; the mother can work part-time and the grandmother can take care of the child; the father can look after the child at home, while the mother works at home; the parents can both work at home and a nanny can take care of the child; or the parents can both work at home, while ...[+++]the child is in a day care centre.

On infants, only 42% among the estimated 1.49 million infants born to mothers living with HIV received antiretroviral medicine to prevent HIV transmission from their mothers.