The Federal Ministry of Health in Ethiopia has announced how it plans to end the transmission of HIV from mothers to their children by 2020. The government is finalising a five year strategic plan for 2016 to 2020 which aims to reduce new HIV infections passed from mothers to their children to between two per cent and zero.
The Ministry of Health is expecting HIV prevalence among children born from HIV positive mothers to fall from 11 per cent in 2015 to five per cent in 2016.
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