Kenyan writer Nyamchama Oyunge, who is studying for a medicine and surgery degree, says that while Africa has made strong strides against HIV/AIDS, we often forget that there are still a number of our children who -- due to Mothers who dont get tested -- are still being born with the disease. Therefore, Oyunge writes: I believe that every child has the right to health. Mother-to-child transmission has greatly decreased over the past years, but we are still far away from zero transmissions. So for many years to come, the pediatric wards will still be full of children who are immune-suppressed, children suffering from a totally preventable but dismal condition, children whose course in life is different, children who will come in to this world briefly and go out as fast as they came after a great deal of suffering. So we have all failed. Our mothers — shy from hospitals — carry babies for nine months and deliver at home without ever going to the antenatal clinics. But why, Mothers? Why do you do this when you could learn your status early enough and save your unborn child? Why do you assume and then learn about your infection later when the child is already infected when nothing can be done? Read the rest here:
Posted on: Tue, 17 Jun 2014 00:20:00 +0000
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