Sunday, December 19, 2010

The United Nations reports that avoid the next generations have been troubled by the objectives of AIDS can be realized

Xinhua United Nations, 1 Dec 30-the United Nations in New York published a report on children and AIDS assessment report said, as long as the international community actively committed to AIDS prevention, treatment and social protection of universally accessible, with particular attention to those most seriously affected by AIDS and vulnerable groups of the edge to avoid the next generation of people suffering from AIDS struggling goal is achievable.

This report by UNICEF, UNAIDS, UNESCO, the United Nations Population Fund and the World Health Organization Joint compose this year is the fifth consecutive year of publication. Reported that, although the overall global AIDS response mechanism for continuous improvement in recent years, but the world still have millions of women and children because of entrenched gender, income, living conditions, education and social status inequalities and marginalized, they also suffered from AIDS most vulnerable groups.

United Nations, UNICEF Executive Director Anthony · Lake in report publication ceremony, present a grim reality is that in sub-Saharan Africa, nearly every day 1000 babies as a result of transmission from mother to child transmission of HIV, most of them do not have access to appropriate treatment, over half of all infants died within two years ago, but this tragedy is available through the relevant preventive measures to avoid.

Lake said that, in order to help those living in poor, remote areas of women's response to AIDS, the United Nations this year launched the innovative measures — payments "mother-child AIDS care package", for the provision of maternal and infant from pregnant 14 thoughtful post 6 weeks need antiretroviral drugs and antibiotics.

According to the United Nations Children's Fund AIDS leaders · Jimmy kolker, the "mother-child AIDS care package" makes it more convenient to pregnant women get related drugs, also to avoid the local clinic Pharmacy reserves the lack of effective block AIDS mother-child "vertical transmission." At present, health kits have begun in Cameroon, Kenya, Lesotho, Zambia, the pilot of the four countries, and will be expanded in 2011 to more countries.

The report also calls for countries to increase investments, further strengthening of adolescent reproductive health education, AIDS prevention, advocacy to raise the young generation of AIDS prevention capabilities. The report shows that in 2009 the world every day there are more than 7000 people are infected with HIV, about 41% of those aged 15-24 year old young man; in southern Africa, an average of 20 person aged 15 to 24-year-old young man is a human infection with the AIDS, nearly 70% are women.

(Editors: 1m1m WA)

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