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Article

4 Sep 2008

Author:
Damas Makangale, Tanzania Standard Newspaper

BA, UNICEF out to curb mother-to-child HIV infection [Tanzania]

British Airways (BA) and the United Nation Children Fund (UNICEF)…“Change for good” programme has donated over 559,000 US Dollars to fund UNICEF’s work…for the prevention of mother to child [HIV] transmission and to strengthen…community based paediatric Aids programmes…The BA/UNICEF partnership programme provides mothers…with primary prevention, and linking...HIV infected mothers with care, treatment and support services… aims to strengthen the capacity of health staff to recognise when infants and children may have been exposed to HIV and...to counsel and test them for the virus… [and] deliver[s] a minimum package of care to HIV infected children…Since the project began, service providers from public health facilities in 28 districts have received training on paediatric Aids diagnosis, treatment and care…