Media Call: Report Denounces Failure to Prevent Mother-to-Child Transmission of HIV...

Media Call: Report Denounces Failure to Prevent Mother-to-Child Transmission
of HIV in Developing World

New multi-country research finds neither newborns nor their mothers receiving
appropriate treatment and care to end needless tragedy; Governments, UN
agencies, donors at fault

WHEN:Thursday, May 21, 2009 - 9:30 a.m. EDT / 1:30 p.m. GMT

PLEASE REGISTER: Provide name, media/program affiliation and phone number to
caitlin.hool@gabbe.com or jeff.lewis@gabbe.com or call (212) 220-4444 by
Wednesday, May 20th, 2009 at 5:00 p.m. EDT. US media can dial in toll-free:
(866) 393-1569; passcode: 11183946. International media will be provided a
dial-in upon registering.

Call will be initiated by ITPC at 9:00 am EDT and will begin at 9:30 a.m.
EDT/1:30 p.m. GMT

WHAT: "Failing Women, Failing Children: HIV, Vertical Transmission and Women's
Health," the seventh Missing the Target report by the International Treatment
Preparedness Coalition (ITPC).

Leading HIV/AIDS advocates and in-country researchers will present findings,
discuss barriers and offer recommendations to radically improve coordination
at national and global levels. Countries included in research: Argentina,
Cambodia, Moldova, Morocco, Uganda and Zimbabwe, representing a range of
high-and low-intensity HIV epidemics and varying levels of prevention
services.

WHO:Gregg Gonsalves, Co-Founder of ITPC; Stephen Lewis, Co-Director of
AIDS-Free World; Aditi Sharma, ITPC, Coordinator of Missing the Target 7;
In-Country ITPC Researchers Richard Hasunira, Research and Communication
Advisor with HEPS-Uganda, Caroline Antonia Mubaira, Programmes Manager with
the Community Working Group on Health, Zimbabwe, and M. Lorena Di Giano, human
rights lawyer and member of the General Board of the Argentinean network of
People Living With HIV.

CONTACT: Caitlin Hool, caitlin.hool@gabbe.com, or Jeff Lewis,
jeff.lewis@gabbe.com, both for ITPC, +1-212-220-4444.

/PRNewswire-USNewswire -- May 19/
SOURCE International Treatment Preparedness Coalition