Nigeria has More HIV-Infected Babies than Anywhere in the World. It’s a Distinction No Country Wants (Science Magazine)
At a time when rates of mother-to-child transmission of HIV have plummeted, even in far poorer countries, Nigeria accounted for 37,000 of the world’s 160,000 new cases of babies born with HIV in 2016. Mother-to-child transmission is only one part of Nigeria’s HIV epidemic. But that route of transmission epitomizes the country’s faltering response to the crisis, highlighting major gaps in HIV testing that allow infections to go untreated and the virus to spread. While the government is beginning to take HIV/AIDS prevention and treatment more seriously, innovators are turning to churches and traditional birthing clinics to reach women with the treatment they and their children need.
Jon Cohen, Science Magazine, June 12, 2018.
