class=”dateline site-color”> LUND. A major research project in which Lund University participates aims to reduce mortality from AIDS among children in Ethiopia, where many do not receive antiretroviral drugs, although they are available .
According to Professor Inger Hallström, who leads the research, are often the cause of families’ circumstances.
The HIV-infected children may sometimes lack parents or live far from hospitals but transportation facilities, while lack of money constitute restrictions.
The social stigma that often exists around HIV also come into play.
The research project is supported by several of the major research councils in Sweden conducted in close cooperation with representatives of the Ethiopian health care.
Work began in October and for four years followed 250 families and nine health centers in different parts of the country.
purpose is to Find out what that facilitate and hinder care.
Around 170,000 Ethiopian children aged 0-14 years living with HIV. Each clinic diagnose average of 25 children per year.
But although there are well-organized and free treatment with antiretroviral drugs, it was in 2010, just 13 percent who began treatment.
Many interrupts additionally their treatment.
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