130,000 children HIV-positive

Kigali - About 130,000 Rwandan children under five are carriers of the HIV virus that causes AIDS, the director of the Rwandan…

Kigali - About 130,000 Rwandan children under five are carriers of the HIV virus that causes AIDS, the director of the Rwandan National Programme for Combating AIDS (PNLS) said yesterday.

"In this age group, nearly 37,000 are orphans because of AIDS and 30 per cent of pregnant women carry the disease and can transmit it to their children at birth," Mr Innocent Ntaganira said.