Hiv campaign

Juba Teaching Hospital has successfully treated forty HIV positive women, to prevent the transmission of HIV AIDS to their unborn children.

According to HIV Counselor Adelinda Brasa Sibit, as a result of the intervention and treatment, 40 healthy, HIV negative babies have been born to mothers living with HIV.

“We enroll these mothers in the system so that that can continue getting drugs. After delivery, the child cannot go back to the Prevention of Mother to Child Treatment Center, PMCTC.”

Angelina is a mother at the hospital who is HIV positive. She is one of the mothers who undertook drug treatment to stop her child from becoming HIV positive.

“I’m very happy because the child now is eight years, and I am now doing services of the PMCTC in Juba Teaching Hospital to all Women who are pregnant in South Sudan”

For his part, Dr. Michael Milly Hussein, the national Minister for Health says South Sudan is fighting another civil war when it comes to HIV AIDS.

He told Eye Radio the country needs to fight the disease together.

“The rate of HIV in South Sudan varies from state to state, but an average is something like 3.3%, but it can go as high as 7%,” said Dr. Hussein.

“Some states have either zero point something or one point something percent; that is why we have an average of three point four, three point three percent. It is very serious problem.”

There are more than four thousand people currently undergoing  HIV treatment in Juba Teaching Hospital.