Uganda: Poverty affecting ART use among mothers

Poverty is preventing many Ugandan mothers from using drugs that prevent mother-to-child transmission of HIV, and this has put more children at risk, health researchers said. "It is frustrating when these mothers come for a single dose of nevirapine to protect their unborn babies, but when they are discharged and told to report back, they don't," Phillipa Musoke, head of the paediatrics department of Uganda's Makerere University medical school, told IRIN.