“WE TOOK our eye off the ball, and as a result we’re not dealing with HIV transmission from mothers to children,” says Charlie Gilks of the World Health Organization.
According to a WHO report released on Tuesday, around 2.3 million children are thought to have HIV. Some 90 per cent of them acquired the virus from their mother, a mode of infection that Gilks says the WHO has mostly ignored.
“Mother-to-child transmission is a mode of infection the WHO has mostly ignored”
There has, despite this, been an overall improvement in global HIV treatment. The report says that 1.3 million…
