Africa is home to almost all children infected with HIV in the world, he lamented on Tuesday in Abidjan, the executive director of UNAIDS, Michel Sidibé, who asked that minors have universal access to antiretroviral treatment.
"It is a matter of social justice (...), a matter of deep inequality because 90% of children living with AIDS are, unfortunately, in Africa," Sidibe said at the opening of a meeting on AIDS and children, which was attended by a dozen health ministers of the continent and international experts.
"Fifty percent of these children born with AIDS die before their fifth birthday" because they have "fortunate to have access to the services available to other children of the rest of the world," reported the executive director of UNAIDS.
"Universal access to treatment for children should become a reality", he asked.
The issue of pediatric HIV has an "important and urgent," he said on his part Dominique Ouattara, first lady of Ivory Coast and ambassador for UNAIDS for the elimination of mother to child transmission.
In Ivory Coast, "only 18% of children under 5 living with HIV / AIDS have access to antiretroviral treatment," recalled Terence McCulley, US ambassador to the Ivory Coast.
Five million still without access to treatment for HIV / AIDS in West and Central Africa, according to information from Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF), published in March.
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