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Children and AIDS is the online information portal and community of practice for the HIV and AIDS programme of the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF).
It supports UNICEF and partners’ efforts to ensure that all infants, children, adolescents and their mothers can access life-saving HIV prevention, treatment, care and support, including in remote areas, in fragile states and among marginalized populations.
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Prevention of vertical transmission
It is critical that women living with HIV have ready access to services geared toward stopping the transmission of HIV to their children during pregnancy, delivery, and breastfeeding.
Treatment in children living with HIV
To ensure that every child thrives, it is imperative that we scale up access to Antiretroviral Therapy (ART). We must prioritize investments in healthcare infrastructure, improve early diagnosis, and scale up HIV case finding among children beyond infancy to ensure timely treatment for all affected. Every child deserves a chance at a healthy future, and our collective responsibility is to make that a reality.
HIV in adolescence
With increased investments and promising new prevention tools, HIV prevention is experiencing a renaissance. Yet, the rate of decline in new HIV infections among adolescents remains insufficient to meet global targets.
Between 2010 and 2020, there was a 34 per cent decline in new HIV infections among adolescents aged 10 – 19, a far cry from the target of a 75 per cent reduction for this period.
HIV-sensitive social protection
Social protection covers a range of public and private economic and social policies and programmes that aim to reduce the consequences of poverty, vulnerability and exclusion across the life course.
In recent years, cash transfer programmes have received increasing attention for their potential to exert significant positive impacts on HIV through influencing the social determinants of health.
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