Table 2: PAHO/WHO recommendations for the elimination of mother-to-child transmission (MTCT).

Moment

Interventions

Pregnancy

Routine screening in all pregnant women

Care and follow-up in seropositive

Delivery

Parasitological tests in neonates of infected mothers (umbilical cord blood)

Maternal and

child care

Treatment of mothers after childbirth

Serological tests in children from 8 months

Treatment in children before the year and serological follow-up

Other

interventions

Diagnosis and treatment in girls and women of childbearing age

Screening in newborn siblings with Chagas disease