Two million young children living with AIDS

More than two million children under the age of 15 are living with HIV, almost all in sub-Saharan Africa where there is no access to treatment and death is virtually guaranteed, seven leading child advocacy organisations said in a report yesterday.

“We are failing children,” said Dean Hirsch, chairman of the Global Movement for Children which issued an urgent appeal to governments, donors and the pharmaceutical industry to recognise a child’s right to treatment as a fundamental human right.