Few AIDS-infected mothers receive medication
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Less than ten percent of pregnant women with HIV or AIDS receive medication to prevent mother-to-child infection. This means that each day, 1800 children are born with HIV.
This is shown in a research on worldwide use of ARV medicines agains HIV/AIDS, published by the World Health Organization.
Between 2003 and 2005 more than 570 children younger than 15 have died of AIDS. Most of them were infected through their mother. In 2005 660.000 children were in urgent need of ARV's. They did not get them. Nine out of ten children in need of medication live in sub-Saharan Africa.
The research shows that the number of people receiving medication in developing countries has tripled to 1,3 million between 2003 and 2005. This is not enough, says WHO. The organization has planned in 2003 to give 3 million people access to medication in 2005.
Source: 
OneWorld
