Uganda Facing Challenges With Its Efforts To Prevent Mother-to-Child HIV Transmission

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Mother-to-child HIV transmission rates remain high in Uganda, despite services made available by the government to prevent MTCT, IRIN/PlusNews reports. Government figures estimate 20,000 children contract the virus each year, accounting for 42% of all young cases in the area, according to IRIN/PlusNews. "The large and growing unmet need for pediatric HIV/AIDS (services) demonstrates that failure of our PMTCT programs to avert