If adequate intervention steps are taken to close the tap of new paediatric HIV infections in Nigeria, no less than 70,000 babies of HIV positive pregnant mothers will be born free of the virus every year.
But without intervention to tackle the menace of Mother To Child Transmission of HIV (MTCT) in the country, an estimated 210,000 HIV positive pregnant women could transmit the virus to their babies at birth or through breastfeeding during the post natal period.