The United Nations and other world leaders are coming together to come up with a plan to end HIV in children by the year 2015. The leaders will be working on medications to prevent mother-children transmission. Head way in medications to help stop the spread of the virus has already been made and hopefully by 2015 something can stop transmission totally. Read the full details after the jump.
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World leaders are launching a global plan with the goal of ensuring that every baby is born HIV-free by 2015 — and that their mothers with the HIV virus live to raise them.
The U.N. says nearly every minute a baby is born with HIV. In 2009, that meant 370,000 children became newly infected with HIV, mainly in sub-Saharan Africa.
At the U.N.’s high-level meeting on AIDS, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon joined other leaders Thursday to launch a roadmap to achieve the goal of eliminating mother to child transmission of HIV in the next four years.
The Global Plan was developed by a team led by the U.N. agency fighting AIDS and the U.S. Global AIDS Coordinator.
