More than 20,000 children are infected with HIV every year KAMPALA, 10 October 2008 (PlusNews) - Children living with HIV in Uganda have been given greater access to treatment with a new paediatric HIV care centre opened at the main referral hospital in the capital, Kampala. More than 20,000 children are infected with HIV every year, and 50 percent of them die before their second birthday. "There is still inadequate access to paediatric HIV care and treatment services in Uganda," the executive director of the centre, Dr Addy Kekitiinwa, said at the opening. "Out of the 330 active antiretroviral (ARV) therapy centres in Uganda, only 110 are able to provide paediatric HIV care services, and most of these are located in urban centres." The centre at Mulago Hospital – supported by the Baylor International Paediatric AIDS...
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