{"id":38153,"date":"2018-09-10T22:30:00","date_gmt":"2018-09-10T22:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/new-drive-to-end-mother-to-child-hiv-infections\/"},"modified":"2018-09-11T14:07:03","modified_gmt":"2018-09-11T14:07:03","slug":"new-drive-to-end-mother-to-child-hiv-infections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/new-drive-to-end-mother-to-child-hiv-infections\/","title":{"rendered":"New drive to end mother-to-child HIV infections launched"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The campaign dubbed Free To Shine was recently initiated by the Organisation of African First Ladies against HIV\/AIDS aiming at ending mother to child transmission of HIV by 2030.<\/p>\n<p>Launching the drive in Kigali Monday, First Lady Jeannette Kagame urged parents and health workers to embrace the fight to ensure that no single child acquires HIV at birth.<\/p>\n<p>She especially encouraged all pregnant women to routinely go for antenatal care in health facilities and make sure they give birth from there.<\/p>\n<p>Acknowledging the contribution of partners over the years, Mrs Kagame said, Rwanda is on track to zero new infections by 2020 and to the eradication of HIV by 2030.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIndeed, the interventions and resources poured into initiatives geared towards reducing new infections have helped reduce the national prevalence rate from a double digit number, to a 3% national average. It is imperative that we keep the momentum,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>The gathering of about 2500 at Petit Stade in Remera also received messages on HIV transmission, ending pediatric HIV\/AIDS, family planning methods, condoms distribution and HIV testing services.<\/p>\n<p>Minister of Health Dr. Diane Gashumba efforts invested have led to a drop in mother-to-child infections from 4.3% in 2011 to 1.5% currently.<\/p>\n<p>Free To Shine campaign is supported by the African Union in its goals for equitable development.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-27221 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/her_excellency_first_lady_mrs_jeannette_kagame_delivering_closing_remarks_at_the_launch_of_free_to_shine_umwana_wanjye_ishema_ryanjye_campaign_2_-fe24e.jpg\" alt=\"Launching the drive in Kigali Monday, First Lady Jeannette Kagame urged parents and health workers to embrace the fight to ensure that no single child acquires HIV at birth.\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-27222 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/her_excellency_first_lady_mrs_jeannette_kagame_rewarding_burera_and_karongi_districts_for_having_achieved_the_emtct_goal_by_2018-18400.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rwanda has launched a campaign aimed at keeping HIV infected mothers alive while preventing mother to child transmission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[69],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-38153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-homehighlights","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38153\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38153"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=38153"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=38153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}