Last year, no fewer than 60 000 children were newly infected with HIV/AIDS in West and Central Africa.

More than four decades into the HIV /AIDS epidemic, four in five children living with HIV /AIDS in West and Central Africa are still not receiving life-saving antiretroviral therapy.

HIV/AIDS-related deaths among adolescents aged 15-19 are on the rise, according to a new report from the UNAIDS and the United Nations Children’s Fund.

UNICEFF’s regional director in the affected area Marie-Pierre Poirrier says it is tragic that so many children and adolescents today are not receiving the treatment they need just because they have not been tested.

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