The UNAIDS director of the Regional Support Team for Eastern and Southern Africa, Prof Sheila Tlou, has appealed to Uganda's First Lady, Janet Kataha Museveni, to champion prevention of paediatric HIV infections.
"We need you as a champion for Prevention of Mother to Child Transmission of HIV (PMTCT). We should strive to keep mothers alive so that we do not create more orphans. We should also enrol them on antiretroviral therapy as soon as possible so that they can safely continue breastfeeding and ensure that the babies are healthy," she said.
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