![\"Cl\u00e9ment](\"http:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/Vers-une-g\u00e9n\u00e9ration-sans-SIDA-300x238.jpg\")
Cl\u00e9ment Niyonsaba: \u00ab Our target is to have HIV\/AIDS free generation\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n
Cl\u00e9ment Niyonsaba, Country Representative of Family Health Initiative, says the new project comes to complete other projects that aimed at eradicating HIV transmission. \u201cThere are other previous initiatives that have helped people to know their HIV status such as the Prevention of Mother-To-Child Transmission \u2013PMTCT program which ended in January 2018\u201d.<\/p>\n
In PMTCT project, People from Bujumbura, Ngozi, Kayanza and Muyinga provinces have been sensitised to doing HIV screening and this has saved children\u2019s lives as testified by HIV positive parents who are raising HIV free children. \u201cWhen I got pregnant, I went to the health centre for prenatal consultations. The nurse convinced me to do HIV screening. The results proved that I tested positive for HIV. But health professionals helped me to give birth to an HIV negative child. Now I have two children and both of them are HIV negative thanks to this initiative\u201d, says a young mother from Musasa Health Center in Ngozi province.<\/p>\n
Health professionals acknowledge the project as well. \u201cWe had no appropriate material to do HIV screening. With this initiative, we are able to do screening and assist HIV mothers so that they give birth to HIV negative babies.\u201d<\/p>\n
The prevention of mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT) programme provides antiretroviral treatment (ART) to HIV-positive pregnant women to stop their infants from acquiring the virus.<\/p>\n
Niyonsaba says Family Health Initiative will also sensitise men to doing HIV screening through the RAFG Project because they did not come in large numbers to do HIV screening with the PMTCT project. \u201cRAFG comes to complete PMTCT project. With PMTCT, men and youth did not come to do screening as women. With this project, we will sensitize more youth and men. The aim is to eradicate AIDS,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n
Josiane Nijimbere, Minister of Health, reminded that only two years are left to reach 2020, the deadline given worldwide to achieve 90-90-90 target. She calls for each and everyone\u2019s involvement to achieve \u201cthe 90-90-90 target\u201d in Burundi.<\/p>\n
According to 90-90-90 target by 2020, 90% of all people living with HIV will know their HIV status and 90% of all people with diagnosed HIV infection will receive sustained antiretroviral therapy while 90% of all people receiving antiretroviral therapy will have viral suppression.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
\u201cReaching an AIDS Free Generation (RAFG) in Burundi\u201d is a project launched this February 15, 2018 by the ministry of health in partnership with USA Embassy in Bujumbura. It will be implemented by Family Health Initiative 360. Cl\u00e9ment Niyonsaba, Country Representative of Family Health Initiative, says the new project comes to complete other projects that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7978,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12,670],"tags":[49,108],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7976"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7976"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7979,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7976\/revisions\/7979"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.iwacu-burundi.org\/englishnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}