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Possible HIV-positive baby explosion predicted

    JOHANNESBURG

    As many as 40,000 Zambian children will be born with HIV each year without proper AIDS interventions, a senior government official has warned.

    According to a local newspaper, The Times Of Zambia, Health Minister Brian Chituwo said the situation was further compounded, with more than 70 percent of rural women forced to give birth at home.

    However, Chituwo pointed out that prevention measures were being put in place with assistance from the UN as well as the Danish Fund for International Development.

    Some 47 million male condoms were recently procured to tackle the pandemic in the country, which has a current mother-to-child HIV transmission rate of 40 percent.

    This article was produced by IRIN News while it was part of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. Please send queries on copyright or liability to the UN. For more information: https://shop.un.org/rights-permissions

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