It is difficult for a woman to know that she will have a sick child...I can't understand...They don't have enough help, then why having more babies?...Please, if I'm wrong, tell me because each time that I read this things
makes me sad...The article says that mother to child transmission programmes have been slow to get off the ground in sub-Saharan Africa.

Half a million babies are estimated to have been infected with HIV at birth or during breastfeeding last year alone. The Zimbabwe study suggests as many as one in four may survive into adolescence.

One of the main public health messages, she said, was the need to prevent infection from mother to child during birth and breastfeeding

The baby can be protected, but relatively few pregnant women with HIV are offered the chance to protect their baby.

Wow, thats so sad! Its scary to think of how many children have died from something that could have been prevented or cured...

Yes...it is really sad...But thinking in the way they live, in what they have in mind...it is so different, at the same time we are living in a world that first people act and then think... I don't see how things are going to stop...and how you say it is really scary...

Breastfeeding is really a problem. In countries where people are so poor, breastfeeding is the best nutrition the babies can get. However, if HIV is transmitted through the breastmilk, then formula is the only answer for little ones when their mothers are infected. Formula is expensive, though, and to save money, many families water it down too much and the baby suffers nutritionally. The water quality there isn't the greatest either.

That is why for me is so important to know from other countries around the world...Since I am in Clipmarks I been seen different point of view of the same clip...is a way of learning...sometimes you can't see or just you don't understand how difficult things are for others... why they are so different ...