For Every Child, End AIDS: Seventh Stocktaking Report, 2016

Despite enormous progress, over half of the world’s new infections last year were among women, children and adolescents. Every day, around 400 children become infected – enough to fill nearly six school buses. Far too many pregnant women living with HIV are still not receiving treatment, putting their own lives, and the lives and futures of their unborn children, at risk. Far too many children have dropped out of treatment, or never received it in the first place.

The situation is especially dire for adolescents – and for adolescent girls most of all.

To end AIDS in children once and for all, we need to focus on both treatment and prevention, with a deeper focus on the life cycle of the child, beginning during pregnancy, in infancy and childhood, and through adolescence.