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CEPA IN TANZANIA Tanzania estimates that 1.4 million women becoming pregnant each year, with 8.2% prevalence among pregnant mothers , there are 114,800 pregnant mothers who are HIV infected. With the estimation of up to 35% transmission of HIV, then the are likely to be about 40,000 babies infected annually. In year 2008, Tanzania estimated a total number of 217,704 new infections, 43,300 ( 20%) being due to mother to child transmission. Using the 2008 estimation, there are 596 people infected by HIV every day, out of these 118 are innocent children infected by their mothers, yet this is preventable. Read more... |