cover image: Storm CLouds gather over the Maloti Mountains, Lesotho

Storm CLouds gather over the Maloti Mountains, Lesotho

10 February 2011, Ha Sekake Clinic, Qacha's Nek District, Lesotho. Mathuso Kheekhe is 24 years old and pregnant with her second child. She lives in Khomang, across the Senqu river, and to get to the Health Clinic, she has to walk 3 hours and cross the river on a ferry boat. Her husband works in South Africa (she is unsure where exactly) and he sends money home every month to support her and her 4 year old son. UNICEF in partnership with WHO and others, have developed an innovative pack of medicines to prevent Mother-to-child HIV transmission (PMTCT). The Mother-Baby pack contains antiretroviral drugs and a prophylactic antibiotic, cotrimoxazole, neede to prevent transmission of HIV. Health workers in antenatal clinics and delivery care settings, including non-medical workers, will distribute the packs to pregnant women living with HIV.
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Authors

Leonie Marinovich

Country
Lesotho
Credit Notice
Leonie Marinovich / Twenty Ten / african.pictures
Date published
09-02-2011
External ID 1
APN322612
Image Number
APN322612
Published in
Qacha's Nek District.
Sublocation
South Africa

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