AIDS EDUCATION
UNICEF executive director Carol Bellamy said African governments must mobilize community education as a top priority. She called for them to set goals for the year 2002, including:
- making adolescent women aware of how to protect themselves.
- giving up to 70 percent of pregnant women access to voluntary and confidential testing.
- encouraging HIV-positive mothers to seek treatment to block mother-to-child transmission.
- making sure local governments can provide food, education and basic health care for the 13 million AIDS orphans.
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