– WHO Regional Director Urges Treatment for AllThe World Health Organization’s (WHO) director for the African region, Dr. Matshidiso Moeti, is urging all member states of the UN specialized agency to prioritize treatment for those living with HIV and AIDS. Dr. Moeti, in her World AIDS Day Message to Africa, said that everybody should count in striving to achieve more rapid and sustainable progress towards universal health coverage for all people living with HIV. She narrated a story of a 14-year old Cameroonian boy who was diagnosed with HIV in 2016 after his mother had died of tuberculosis. There were 43,000 people living with HIV in 2016, among whom 19 percent were accessing antiretroviral therapy. UNAIDS disclosed that an estimated 500 children were newly infected with HIV due to mother-to-child transmission.

Source: Daily Observer December 01, 2017 02:15 UTC