Paediatric HIV care is still a major challenge in southern Africa and only a small number of affected children have access to treatment, a senior health official says.
Officially closing the first regional training workshop on paediatric HIV care at Baylor's Children's Clinical Centre of Excellence in Gaborone, Barbara Mudanga, chief health officer at the Ministry of Health, department of HIV/AIDS prevention and care, said that child survival in the region has been seriously affected by the HIV/AIDS epidemic.
She noted that in Botswana, 10 percent of the people on treatment are children under the age of 15. read more
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