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First ladies initiative tackles HIV prevention

    JOHANNESBURG

    African Synergy, an HIV/AIDS initiative of African first ladies, recently conducted a 5-day training programme in Bujumbura, Burundi, for medical staff and social workers on the prevention of mother-to-child HIV transmission.

    African Synergy executive secretary, Jean Stephane Biatcha, said mother-to-child HIV infections in Africa contributed significantly to the spread of the HIV/AIDS pandemic and compromised future generations on the continent.

    Biatcha was quoted by health information service, NewsRx, as saying: "The situation of women and children in Africa has reached a critical stage to become an alarming concern. Two thirds of [HIV] positive people in the world are women and 800,000 children are infected by their mothers every year."

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