KAMPALA, Oct 27 (AFP) - HIV-positive women called Monday for improved global programmes to prevent mother-to-child transmission of the AIDS-causing virus, saying existing ones did not include postnatal care for infected mothers.
"Mother-to-child transmission programmes should be able to cater for ARV (antiretroviral drugs) access to mothers after birth," one HIV-positive woman told a major international conference in the Ugandan capital tasked with helping the tens of millions living with the disease.
"We may be faced with a situation where children are produced healthy only for their parents to die and leave them orphans," the woman told the five-day conference of People Living With HIV/AIDS that opened Sunday.
There were 13 million children orphaned by AIDS in the world in 2002, according to the United Nations Children's Fund, UNICEF.
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