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Siyayinqoba Beat It! 2006 Ep. 8 - Children on ARVs
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It was estimated that in 2006 about 230 000 children under the age of 15 in our country were infected with HIV. But only 10 000 of those were on antiretroviral treatment. The rest of them were in desperate need of medication to fight this disease. In this episode of Siyayinqoba Beat It! the team looked at the challenges faced in administering antiretroviral treatment to children and made the point that PMTCT programmes should be scaled up to ensure that no kids are born with HIV in South Africa to start off with.
“We are dying in large numbers and our president won’t acknowledge that we’re dying because of AIDS and HIV.”
Former Treatment Action Campaign Chair
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