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Report on the Presidential
Mission on Children
Orphaned by AIDS in Sub-Saharan Africa: Findings and Plan of Action
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Plan of
Action
The
Goals
UNAIDS,
in cooperation with its bi-lateral and multi-lateral partners, has laid out
a series of goals for the next five years as described below.The Administration seeks to further these goals through an initiative
entitled “Joining Forces for LIFE”:Leadership
and Investment in Fighting an Epidemic.
The incidence of HIV
infection will be reduced by 25% among 15-24 year olds by 2005.(Currently 2 million young adults are infected each year in sub-Saharan
Africa.)
At least 75% of HIV
infected persons will have access to basic care and support services at
the home and community levels, including drugs for common opportunistic
infections (TB, pneumonia, and diarrhea).(Currently, less than 1% of HIV infected persons
have such access.)
Orphans will have
access to education and food on an equal basis with their non-orphaned peers.
By 2001, domestic
and external resources available for HIV/AIDS efforts in Africa will have
doubled to $300 million per year.(Currently,
approximately $150 million per year is spent on HIV/AIDS prevention in sub-Saharan
Africa.)
By 2005, 50% of HIV
infected pregnant women will have access to interventions to reduce mother-to-child
HIV transmission.(Currently, less
than 1% of HIV infected pregnant women have access to such services in sub-Saharan
Africa.