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    Mother-to-child HIV transmission: We all have a role to play to fight it
    (New Vision, 2017-07-04) Dr. Nakanwagi, Miriam
    Disclosing to a child who is HIV positive is a process. Even then to ever look into a child's eyes and have to deliver news of an HIV positive serostatus is heart breaking even to the hardest of hearts. More than 90% of children acquire HIV from their mothers. Uganda has achieved an 86% reduction in HIV infections among children since 2009 and the mother-to-child transmission rate was 2.9% in 2015