The International Journal of Maternal and Child Health (MCH) and AIDS (IJMA) is a multidisciplinary, peer-reviewed, global health, open-access journal that publishes original research articles, review articles, methodology articles, field studies or field reports, policy papers, and commentaries in all areas of maternal and child health (MCH) and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) and acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS).IJMA is the only open-access journal that focuses on the social determinants of health and disease and disparities incommunicable, non-communicable diseases burden affecting the MCH and HIV/AIDS populations including infants, children, women, men/fathers, and families across the life span.IJMA provides a global forum for the rapid publication of papers that advance the science, policy, and practice of maternal and child health, pediatrics, child health, women's health, and further interdisciplinary knowledge of prevention, management and care of HIV/AIDS in different populations. The journal provides a forum for disseminating work on those at risk of, infected and affected by HIV/AIDS including infants, children, women, fathers, families, and communities