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Better kiddie AIDS care under UN accord

    JOHANNESBURG

    The UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) and Baylor College of Medicine in Texas this week promised greater anti-AIDS care and treatment for children in Eastern and Southern Africa.

    The new partnership was expected help Baylor and UNICEF broaden access to antiretrovirals for HIV-positive children and families across 20 countries in the region.

    UNICEF Regional Director Per Engebak said in a statement, "This collaboration is good news for children living with HIV/AIDS in the region, where far too many still don't receive the care and treatment they need."

    Some 2.3 million children were estimated to be living with the HI virus globally, while more than 5 million had died from the pandemic so far, most of them in Africa.

    Engebak noted that the accord marked a step forward in his agency's 'Global Campaign on Children and AIDS', launched last year specifically to encourage collaborative efforts such as this.

    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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