HIV positive and pregnant, mothers receive medication to prevent the disease from being transmitted to their child.of HIV from about 20% in 2009 to about 1% currently. The significant improvement is largely due to government’s Prevention of Mother To Child Transmission program.HIV positive and pregnant mothers receive medication during their pregnancy and childbirth to prevent the disease from being transmitted to their child.
Deputy Director for Science at the Africa Health Institute Professor, Thumbi Ndung’u, says despite the high success of anti-retorviral treatment there needs to be more focus on the prevention of HIV transmission, particularly among young people, who continue to carry a disproportionate burden of the disease.
She now has two children- aged seven and three years old – who were born HIV negative. She says while she had the support of her family and the program, she feels discriminated at public clinics, when the queues she sits in and the colour of her medical file at the clinic, gives away her status.
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