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The World Health Organization issued updated guidelines for improving efforts to prevent mother-to-child transmission of HIV by testing women earlier in their pregnancies and testing and treating infants sooner after their births, the Wall Street Journal reports. Eliminating mother-to-child HIV infections by 2015 is a major goal for WHO, UNAIDS and other public health organizations…

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