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• Nigeria: HIV Preventive Action Could Save 70,000 Newborns Yearly (AllAfrica.com)

  Posted by @JoinBBC Staff July 5, 2011 - 460 views - Filed in Society - #HIV  #Babies  #Nigeria 
  

  If adequate intervention steps are taken to close the tap of new paediatric HIV infections in Nigeria, no less than 70,000 babies of HIV positive pregnant mothers will be born free of the virus every year.

  But without intervention to tackle the menace of Mother To Child Transmission of HIV (MTCT) in the country, an estimated 210,000 HIV positive pregnant women could transmit the virus to their babies at birth or through breastfeeding during the post natal period.

  HIV & AIDS specialist with UNICEF, Dr. Abiola Davies who made the observation, asserted that if there was a sustainable and efficient HIV prevention and elimination process in place, every year, Nigeria would be ensuring the survival of an average of 22,333 HIV infected infants who, otherwise, would have died before their first birthday. Statistics show that without intervention, 67,000 HIV infected infants in Nigeria die before their first birthday.

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