Fewer kids are dying of Aids
29/11/2007 16:10  - (SA)  

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Johannesburg - The number of HIV-positive children in Africa continues to rise but fewer children are dying of Aids as access to treatment has improved, the United Nations Children's Agency Unicef was quoted as saying on Thursday.

An estimated 1.5 million children have become newly infected with HIV/Aids since 2004, Unicef told a meeting of the Paediatrics HIV/Aids Treatment Forum in the Southern African kingdom of Swaziland.

At the same time there has been a decrease in HIV/Aids-related deaths among children, signalling wider access for children to life-prolonging antiretroviral drugs (ARVs), South African radio quoted Unicef's HIV programme advisor Chewe Luo as saying.

African countries still need to do more to protect children and adolescents from the pandemic, Luo said.

Around 20 countries are attending the three-day meeting on paediatric HIV/Aids in Swaziland ahead of World Aids Day on December 1.

Swaziland has one of the highest rate of HIV infections worldwide. Around one in four adults (26%) are HIV-positive, according to the preliminary findings of a population survey quoted by UNAids. - Sapa-dpa

- SAPA

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