Progress towards Elimination of HIV Mother-to-Child Transmission in the Dominican Republic from 1999 to 2011

Table 3

Mother to child transmission (MTCT) rates by period (before recommendation of highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) for prevention of MTCT (1999–2008), and after (2009–2011) by center (La Romana center versus others) and prevention strategies, Dominican Republic.

	1999–2008		2009–2011
	MTCT rate	𝑃	MTCT rate	𝑃
	No. of infected/total (%)		No. of infected/total (%)
La Romana	20/301 (6.6)	<.001	8/212 (3.8)	.9
Other centers	122/973 (12.5)		4/90 (4.9)*
Any prenatal antiretroviral use
La Romana	6/179 (3.3)	.16	8/187 (4.3)	.8
Other centers	34/561 (6.1)		2/78 (2.6)
Any prenatal antiretroviral use, formula only
La Romana	6/149 (4.0)	.28	8/183 (4.4)	.7
Other centers	35/547 (6.4)		1/53 (1.9)
No prenatal antiretroviral use
La Romana	13/114 (11.4)	.002	0/25 (0)	.036
Other centers	75/299 (25.1)		2/12 (16.7)
No prenatal antiretroviral use, formula only
La Romana	4/31 (12.9)	.51	0/25 (0)	.15
Other centers	26/146 (17.8)		2/10 (20)

*Difference between 1999–2008 period and 2009–2011 period P < .05.