Sustaining the health and adult social care workforce
What investments and actions are required to create a sustainable health and social care workforce?

This POSTnote reviews recent scientific evidence on the transmission of HIV from infected mothers to their babies and the implications. POSTnote 28. POST. 1991.
Babies and HIV infection (194 KB , PDF)
Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) infection is spreading in the heterosexual population, with the result that pregnant women are increasingly affected (the number infected in inner London has risen from 1 in 2000 to 1 in 500 in the last two years). Some babies acquire their mother’s infection by the time they are born; there is also evidence that babies may be at risk of infection from breast feeding.
This POSTnote reviews recent scientific evidence on the transmission of HIV from infected mothers to their babies and the implications.
Babies and HIV infection (194 KB , PDF)
What investments and actions are required to create a sustainable health and social care workforce?
This POSTnote considers the potential impacts of birthrate decline, including on the workforce and the provision of public services.
This POSTnote will summarise the factors that affect winter mortality. It will outline evidence for policies to prevent excess winter deaths.