PRETORIA, South Africa (AP) — It’s a worrying question for health officials in one of the richest and most developed areas of the African continent: Why are babies being born with HIV when free medication is available to prevent mother-to-child transmission?
In the first half of this year, 232 babies were born with HIV in South Africa’s Gauteng region, which includes Johannesburg and the capital of Pretoria and is home to at least 15 million people.
“We do still find it very concerning that in this day and age, with all the preventative programs that’s available free of charge at our clinics, that we are still finding babies testing positive,” said
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