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He said: “One child in every seven in the world who dies of preventable, treatable diseases every year in the whole world is a Nigerian child.
“One out of seven mothers who die anywhere in the world is a Nigerian mother and every year 58,000 Nigerian infants catch HIV from their mothers who love them because they didn’t get the drugs to stop the transmission of HIV from mother to child

He was represented at the occasion by Dr. Morenike Ukpong, the Coordinator, New HIV Vaccine and Microbicide Advocacy Society.
Idoko said there was a need for biomedical prevention technologies because the decline in new infections was much slower in adults than in children