Philippa Musoke

"Not every site has the capacity to do what we do in Mulago and Kawempe.Some mothers don't start treatment at the required time."

"Some of the women get the disease during pregnancy and they don't know about it, so they end up producing a child with HIV.Some of them take the medicine when they want This makes the viral load very high, increasing the risk of transmission to the baby."

"If you look at the group,we follow at MUJHU,3,000,the prevalence of mother -to-child transmission of HIV is at zero percent.None of them transmitted the virus to the baby.They are on treatment and are followed regularly (by our health workers).But the national prevalence is at around 5 percent."