Children in the remote villages of Africa have no access to medical care, deprived by the real problems of poverty and lack of transport. They suffer and die unneccessarily, often from diseases such as malaria (still Africa's biggest killer) that are cheaply and easily treatable if the medical skills and medicine are in place. Our programme takes the medical care to the villages where it is needed and saves young lives every day.
We also provide life-saving antiretroviral medicine to children suffering from AIDS, a programme preventing the transmission of the HIV virus from mother to baby at birth and deliver an extensive HIV/AIDS education in the schools and villages.
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