Almotamar.net - Director General of Family Health at the ministry of Public Health Dr Ali al-Mithwahi said Sunday Yemen is still registering less rates of infection of children in Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS). He has also requested of strong and effective measures for curbing dissemination of this disease among children and raising the level of guiding enlightenment for information on this disease.
In a workshop on approving the national guide on preventing communication of AIDS virus infection from the mother to the child organised by the National Programme of AIDS and Reproductive Health supported by World health Organisation and UNICEF, al-Mithwahi pointed out role of international organisations in enhancing programmes of fighting, establishment of units for voluntary examination and providing free of charge medications and drugs resisting the disease to patients and leading to issuing the preventative guide that limits spread of AIDS virus among children.
The workshop began with participation of 30 of AIDS programmes directors in a number of governorates, reproductive health and representatives of charity societies working in this field.
Meanwhile, the representative of UNICEF in Yemen Nassim Abdulrahman said the workshop is devoted to issuing the guide, indicating to rise of infected children worldwide and has amounted to three million cases and all of them infection came through the mother.