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"Urgent global push" needed to end AIDS in children by 2020
21.07.2016 08:02 "Agro Perspectiva" (Kyiv) —
As of yesterday, while speaking within a special session of the 21st International AIDS Conference, in Durban (South Africa), stakeholders said an «urgent global push» is needed to meet the goal of ending paediatric AIDS by 2020, UN Radio reports.
As to the report, the session focused on how to reach the global target of providing access to antiretroviral therapy, for at least 1.6 million children, by 2018.
There have been major gains in preventing new HIV infections among children, said the UNAIDS agency, but the treatment needs of youngsters living with HIV, are not being met.
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