Massive aid needed for Children with AIDS

The National Global Campaign on Children and AIDS is aware of the urgent need to massively upscale the response for children and adolescents affected by HIV/AIDS, and to mobilize the partnerships and resources necessary to do so. The Global Campaign has been prepared with all the key global partners of UNICEF. The campaign will focus on the ‘4Ps’, according to UNICEF. The 4P’s that the campaign will focus on are: primary prevention for adolescents from HIV infection; prevention of mother to child transmission of HIV; paediatric AIDS treatment and care as well as the protection of orphans and other children made vulnerable by HIV/AIDSThe Global Campaign on Children and AIDS was launched at the Polytechnic Hotel School on 25 October. This campaign is aimed at the devastating impact AIDS has on the world’s children and adolescents, according to UNICEF. According to UNICEF, the campaign aims to scale up interventions, to mobilise commitment, to place children more prominently on the international HIV/AIDS agenda, to mobilise resources and partners and to meet the Millennium Development Goals (MDG’s), as well as the Medium Term Strategic Plan (MTSP) priorities and to protect child survival gains. According to Eiichi Shimizu, assistant communications officer at UNICEF, the campaign is jointly launched by the UNICEF Global Campaign and the four ministries responsible for programmes related to Children and AIDS in Namibia.Sportswoman Agnes Samaria, a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador, said at the launch that while important gains have been made in global funding for HIV/AIDS, children remain dangerously underserved.