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Women call for postnatal ARVs

    JOHANNESBURG
    Women activists living with HIV/AIDS in Uganda have called for improved global programmes to prevent the mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT) of HIV. According to the Agence France-Presse (AFP) news service, the women argued that existing programmes did not include postnatal care for HIV-positive mothers. "Mother-to-child transmission programmes should be able to cater for antiretroviral drug access to mothers after birth," one activist told a major five-day International Conference of People Living With HIV/AIDS, currently on in the capital Kampala. Research shows that the number of children orphaned by HIV/AIDS across the globe could rise to 25 million by 2010, with four out of every five of such children living in sub-Saharan Africa. The activist added: "We may be faced with a situation where children are produced healthy, only for their parents to die and leave them orphans."

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