400,000 Africans born with AIDS annually: UNAIDS
By IANSFriday, May 21, 2010
YAOUNDE - Over 400,000 children in Africa are born with AIDS each year, a UN official said Friday.
The situation is worrying because a third of those babies die before their first birthday for not having access to treatments, said Michael Sidibe, executive director of the joint UN Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS).
Another 50 percent of the infected babies die before the second year of their lives, Sidibe said.
According to medical sources, 60 percent of those infected in Sub-Saharan Africa are women, Prensa Latina reported.
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