Dr. John visited 20 year-old Sayeeda, an HIV positive mother of three children. Until her young husband was diagnosed with AIDS at the time of his death, she had never heard about the disease. Her neighbors shunned Sayeeda and her children so Dr. John visited her home in the shanty town outside Mumbai. He purposely touched Sayeeda and held her HIV+ baby, Arbaz, in front of startled neighbors ( moins )

19-year-old Tsepang Lebete is HIV positive and expecting her second child. She lives in Lesotho, Africa, and attends sessions for pregnant women in Thabana Morena clinic. The group is given advice on nutrition, birth, HIV and breastfeeding. Numerous women within the group are HIV positive. In the African kingdom of Lesotho almost one in every four adults is living with HIV, the third highest HIV prevalence rate in the world. One in three pregnant women in antenatal care is HIV positive, meaning that every year thousands of children risk being born with HIV, passed from mother to child during pregnancy or birth. UNICEF has helped to increase the number of clinics and hospitals offering Prevention of Mother to Child Transmission (PMTCT) services that reduce the chances of babies being born with HIV. In these clinics, every pregnant mother is tested for HIV, given counselling and advice and if necessary, put on a life-saving anti retroviral (ARV) drug regime. Within eight hours of the birth, the newborn is also given a dose of the ARV Nevirapine. All of this increases the chances of the baby being born free from HIV. However, despite ongoing efforts, today only 20% of all HIV positive women in the country can access PMTCT. As a result, one in ten of all babies are born with HIV in Lesotho. ( moins )

Toujours aucune trace de Cédrika Provencherà Trois-Rivières (Québec)...Pour plus d'information : http://cedrika.ca/pour écrire un mot d'encouragement:http://ouestcedrika.com/ fra/ext/english site about Cédrika :http://www.cedrika.org/Je souhaites à la famille de retrouver Cédrika, saine et sauve... Je vous envoie des ondes positives et je suis de tout coeur avec eux...Envoyez vos messages d'espoir, vous aussi... ( moins )