SA on track to halve mother-to-child HIV by 2010
By, The Times, November 26, 2007
South Africa is on track to meet a United Nations target for reducing mother-to-child HIV transmission (PMTCT) by 2010, the United Nations Children’s Fund (Unicef) said yesterday.
“SA is one of 17 low- and middle- income countries that are set to achieve the ... target of reducing mother-to-child infections by 50percent,” read a recent report by Unicef on PMTCT, paediatric HIV care and treatment in low- and middle-income countries.
In SA the PMTCT programme had been expanded to cover 90percent of public health facilities. More than 32000 children with HIV had started antiretroviral therapy by September this year . The report would be presented in Johannesburg today at a two-day Global Partners Forum on PMTCT, organised jointly by Unicef, the World Health Organisation and 18 other organisations and representatives from regions affected by HIV/Aids, including Asia, the Caribbean, Eastern Europe and Latin America.
Unicef reported that by December last year 127000 children were on ARVs worldwide.
Health department spokesman Sibani Mngadi said: “We want to offer a comprehensive package of care and treatment to those infected and affected. The health of women and children is our priority.”
Source: http://www.thetimes.co.za/News/Article.aspx?id=639487
South Africa is on track to meet a United Nations target for reducing mother-to-child HIV transmission (PMTCT) by 2010, the United Nations Children’s Fund (Unicef) said yesterday.
“SA is one of 17 low- and middle- income countries that are set to achieve the ... target of reducing mother-to-child infections by 50percent,” read a recent report by Unicef on PMTCT, paediatric HIV care and treatment in low- and middle-income countries.
In SA the PMTCT programme had been expanded to cover 90percent of public health facilities. More than 32000 children with HIV had started antiretroviral therapy by September this year . The report would be presented in Johannesburg today at a two-day Global Partners Forum on PMTCT, organised jointly by Unicef, the World Health Organisation and 18 other organisations and representatives from regions affected by HIV/Aids, including Asia, the Caribbean, Eastern Europe and Latin America.
Unicef reported that by December last year 127000 children were on ARVs worldwide.
Health department spokesman Sibani Mngadi said: “We want to offer a comprehensive package of care and treatment to those infected and affected. The health of women and children is our priority.”
Source: http://www.thetimes.co.za/News/Article.aspx?id=639487
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