More than a thousand children infected with HIV each day

Despite progress in preventing HIV transmission from pregnant mothers to their babies, more than a thousand children around the world were infected with the disease each day in 2006, according to a UN report.

Some sub-Saharan African countries, such as Namibia, Swaziland, South Africa and Rwanda managed to greatly increase access to treatment for vulnerable mothers between 2004 and 2005, said the report issued yesterday by the New York-based UN children’s fund.