Breaking News | 22,000 Nigerian Children Infected With HIV Annually — UNICEF

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The United Nations Children’s Fund, UNICEF, has said that about 22,000 Nigerian children get infected with HIV annually.
UNICEF’s Chief of Management for Results, Claes Johansson, who disclosed this at the national dialogue meeting for the prevention of mother-to-child transmission, PMTCT, of HIV in Nigeria on Tuesday, said about two-thirds of the infected children do not get treatment.
He described the meeting as a crucial one for Nigeria to discuss ways of eliminating vertical transmission of HIV, also known as mother-to-child transmission.
He said: “We are working within a framework to map out a strategy that we will work with for the next five years along with Nigeria.

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