Thursday, 25 February 2021, 4:19 pm
The
promise was that by 2020, no child will be born with HIV or
newly infected with HIV during breastfeeding across the
world. Even before the Covid-19 pandemic posed an
unprecedented challenge to health systems, the progress
towards the HIV-related 2020 goalpost, despite some
commendable gains, was not very encouraging.
Despite
global efforts to prevent HIV transmission, 150,000 children
were either born with or were newly infected with HIV during
breastfeeding in 2019, bringing the total number of children
(aged 0 to 9 years) living with HIV to 1.1 million. Also,
about 310
children died from AIDS-related causes every day in
2019, mostly because of inadequate access to HIV prevention,
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BENGALURU: When the
anti-COVID-19 vaccines do arrive, those hoping to get the shots should ensure that they do not have any COVID-19 symptoms. Women of child-bearing age also need to ensure that they do not conceive for a certain duration after getting the dosage. While the government has prioritised that health workers, frontline workers, senior citizens and those with co-morbidities will get the shots first, pregnant women and those with
COVID-19 symptoms will remain vulnerable to contracting the virus.
In the absence of any safety trials conducted on pregnant women, regulators in Britain have advised not to offer vaccine shots to pregnant women, and the authorities there have cautioned women of child-bearing age to avoid getting pregnant at least for two months after they have been vaccinated.Experts said that in the absence of vaccine trial data on pregnant women, there are no convincing indicators to show its effects on the well-being of the mother and unborn child.