On World AIDS Day, doctor says more pediatrics AIDS drugs needed
HIV, the AIDS virus, not only infects adults, but also affects many children. Millions have become orphans, and many are infected at birth.
One of the organizations dealing with pediatric AIDS is the Elizabeth Glaser Foundation. Dr. Denis Tindyebwa is the foundation's regional director of pediatric care and treatment. From Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, he spoke to VOA English to Africa reporter Joe De Capua.
"There are more than two million children living with HIV/AIDS globally and over 90 percent of those children live in Africa and specifically sub-Saharan Africa. Those children really are not getting the treatment that they should be getting. Only about 20 percent of the children are getting the life saving anti-retroviral drugs. But the issue is that these children in actual fact should not be getting HIV in the first place. And yet, every day, approximately 1,000 children become newly infected with HIV, the majority of them through mother-to-child transmission, and the majority of them, over 90 percent of them, in Africa," he says.
Dr. Tindyebwa says the drugs to prevent mother-to-child transmission of the AIDS virus are available, but are still not reaching many pregnant women who need them. Weaknesses in the health system are the first problem. "The mothers live far away from the health facilities. And the second reason is that there are not an adequate number of health workers to provide these services to the mothers," he says.
— VOA News, December 1, 2008
Joining Forces goes national
The American Hospital Association (AHA) is working with one of its members in Minnesota, HealthPartners, on an initiative to educate millions of Americans about the problems faced by returning veterans and their families as they restart and rebuild their lives following service in combat.
Joining Forces is an effort to help not only the people in the nation’s community hospitals, primarily physicians and nurses, do a better job of responding to their needs, but to inform a wide variety of individuals and organizations that service men and women and their families, might turn to for help. Click here to learn more.
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