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Child mortality progress hampered by AIDS - UNICEF

    JOHANNESBURG

    HIV/AIDS has kept global child mortality rates high, despite advances over the decades, a UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) report has said.

    According to its 'Global Child Survival and Health' report, AIDS was one of the biggest threats to child health with mortality rates in 14 countries - nine of which are in sub-Saharan Africa - having increased primarily due to the pandemic.

    "With the advances of the past five decades, we could ... break the back of the AIDS pandemic, but we need greater political will and action," UNICEF's Canada director Nigel Fisher said.

    The agency has called for integrated treatment and prevention programmes to urgently be made available to all children to curb the pandemic.

    Access the report: www.unicef.ca

    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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