ID :
10030
Sun, 06/15/2008 - 15:47
Auther :
Shortlink :
http://m.oananews.org//node/10030
The shortlink copeid
UN CALLS FOR HIV/AIDS EXPECTANT MOTHERS TO HAVE ACCESS TO MADICATION
BANGKOK, June 15 (TNA) - UNAIDS, a joint United Nations program on
HIV/AIDS, has urged governments worldwide to allow pregnant women who have contracted the deadly disease to have access to anti-viral medications by "at least 80 per cent within 2010", a senior Thai public health ministry official said Saturday.
Dr. Siriporn Kanchana, deputy permanent secretary for Pubic Health, said Thai along with Zambian and Ukrainian senior health officials presented papers on how to prevent transmission of AIDS from mother to child during a UNAIDS meeting held in New York between June 9-11.
She said the papers were submitted after it was found that only 18 per
cent of pregnant women throughout the world received blood tests for HIV in 2007 and only about one-third of them who contracted HIV received an anti-AIDS medication.
Because of the rising trend on the disease victims, participants at the meeting called upon global health authorities to provide medication service to patients at the rate of not less than 80 per cent within 2010, said Dr. Siriporn.
In 2007, pregnant women in Thailand contracted the disease less than one per cent while the rate of the disease transmitted from HIV-positive mothers to childd declined to 5.6 per cent, she said.
Compared to 1997, an average of 2.29 per cent of pregnant women in
Thailand contracted HIV while about 30 per cent of new born children
received the disease, she said.
Thai government and private clinics have been asked by the public health ministry to educate pregnant women -- now comprising about 800,000 yearly to how to take care and to protect themselves from contracting the HIV virus, she added.
HIV/AIDS, has urged governments worldwide to allow pregnant women who have contracted the deadly disease to have access to anti-viral medications by "at least 80 per cent within 2010", a senior Thai public health ministry official said Saturday.
Dr. Siriporn Kanchana, deputy permanent secretary for Pubic Health, said Thai along with Zambian and Ukrainian senior health officials presented papers on how to prevent transmission of AIDS from mother to child during a UNAIDS meeting held in New York between June 9-11.
She said the papers were submitted after it was found that only 18 per
cent of pregnant women throughout the world received blood tests for HIV in 2007 and only about one-third of them who contracted HIV received an anti-AIDS medication.
Because of the rising trend on the disease victims, participants at the meeting called upon global health authorities to provide medication service to patients at the rate of not less than 80 per cent within 2010, said Dr. Siriporn.
In 2007, pregnant women in Thailand contracted the disease less than one per cent while the rate of the disease transmitted from HIV-positive mothers to childd declined to 5.6 per cent, she said.
Compared to 1997, an average of 2.29 per cent of pregnant women in
Thailand contracted HIV while about 30 per cent of new born children
received the disease, she said.
Thai government and private clinics have been asked by the public health ministry to educate pregnant women -- now comprising about 800,000 yearly to how to take care and to protect themselves from contracting the HIV virus, she added.
