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is the VOA Special English Development Report. UNICEF is with a nonprofit group to bring HIVAIDS programs to women and children in five countries. UNICEF, the United Children's Fund, will work with Family Health International. The partnership will be established at first in Guyana, India, , Nigeria and Zambia. One of the goals is to care for babies infected with HIV..., the virus that AIDS. Another is to prevent the spread of HIV... mother to child. Activities will depend on the needs each country. In some cases, anti-retroviral drugs will be to infected parents of children. Women and children living rural communities will receive most of the services. Steve is the head of communications for Family Health International. says the partnership is separate from UNICEF's international campaign AIDS but will support the goals of the UN.. . Both UNICEF and Family Health International say they hope expand their partnership into more countries in the future. Health International has been working on public health issues nineteen seventy-one-. The organization is based in North Carolina has programs in seventy countries. It does research on diseases and reproductive health, and also provides services. More half of its yearly budget of about two hundred million dollars comes from the United States government. Experts an important part of fighting AIDS is political will. example they point to is Cambodia. That country has getting attention for its progress in reducing some of highest infection rates in Asia. Experts praise the government supporting public education efforts and programs to give condoms sex workers. Prostitutes are taught to enforce a policy "one hundred percent condom use" at sex businesses. But are warnings that HIV... rates could still rise among who have sex with men and among users of drugs. Rates could also rise among so-called indirect sex ---- women who work in bars and clubs. Today eighty percent of all people infected with HIV... in receive life-saving drugs for free. And that's the VOA English Development Report, written by Jill Moss. You can more about HIV... and AIDS at voaspecialenglishcom..

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