The United Nations Children’s Fund, UNICEF, has said that about 22,000 Nigerian children get infected with HIV annually.
UNICEF’s Chief of Management for Results, Claes Johansson, who disclosed this at the national dialogue meeting for the prevention of mother-to-child transmission, PMTCT, of HIV in Nigeria on Tuesday, said about two-thirds of the infected children do not get treatment.
He described the meeting as a crucial one for Nigeria to discuss ways of eliminating vertical transmission of HIV, also known as mother-to-child transmission.
He said: “We are working within a framework to map out a strategy that we will work with for the next five years along with Nigeria.
“Ending the vertical transmission of HIV/AIDS is one of the key actions that will also help end pandemics, which is what the global world is looking forward to.
“However, we have so much to do and a long way to go, especially with mother-to-child-transmission taking about 32 percent and one out of…
Source: Vanguard Newspaper
