| ■ Too Few Children Get Emergency AIDS Therapy | 06.08.21 |
| Only 5 percent of the 660,000 children around the world who need emergency AIDS drug therapy have access to it, the medical relief agency Doctors Without Borders (Medecins sans frontieres - MSF) said Tuesday at the International AIDS Conference in Toronto. The agency said many children who need such treatment live in developing nations and were infected by HIV-positive mothers who themselves had no treatment, Agence France Presse reported. MSF said urgent action is needed to treat these children and to slash the cost of high-priced pediatric HIV/AIDS drugs. The group noted that, due to the lack of medical care, about half the children born with HIV die before age two, AFP reported. "We know that treating children works, but with better tools, we could be treating so many more," said Dr. Moses Masaquoi of MSF in Malawi. |