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Africa-Press – Uganda. <\/strong><\/span>The new Uganda Aids Commission (UAC) chairperson, Dr Ruth Senyonyi, yesterday assumed office, pledging to renew efforts to combat Aids as a public health threat by 2030.<\/b><\/p>\n

The former president of Mothers Union replaced Dr Eddie Mukoyo, who served in the position for two terms.<\/p>\n

Speaking at the handover yesterday, Dr Senyonyi said she is ready to pick from her predecessor\u2019s efforts in combating the HIV\/Aids scourge.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have been welcomed greatly and that is very wonderful. I am a professional counsellor and I am ready to work as a team with the group. The funding, the sustainability, all these challenges we have had but we are ready to go,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

UAC was established 32 years ago to coordinate the multi-sectoral response to the HIV\/Aids.<\/p>\n

The UAC Director General, Dr Nelson Musoba, highlighted new babies\u2019 HIV infections as one of the lingering challenges even with the available technology.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur chairperson should know that we are gearing towards closing the tap totally on HIV infections in new-born babies. This is one area of challenge where we still have mothers passing on the virus to new-born babies and yet with the available technology, a mother who is positive and is on treatment is supposed to have a baby that has no virus. That is one of the challenges as the new chairperson comes in,\u201d Dr Musoba said.<\/p>\n

Last year\u2019s data from UAC shows that 1.4 million Ugandans are living with HIV\/Aids. Of these, 6,000 babies were born with the virus, 80,000 are children living with the virus, there are over 50,000 new infections and 17,000 Aids-related deaths.<\/p>\n

He attributed the more than 6,000 new-born babies acquiring the virus at birth to mothers not giving birth in hospitals and that some are still giving birth from home with help of traditional birth attendants.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe other challenge is that some mothers do not follow instructions given to them by the healthcare providers and if you don\u2019t follow instructions, then you will pass on the virus to the baby,\u201d Dr Musoba said.<\/p>\n

Dr Musoba also revealed that the other challenge they are facing is limited communication and information flow since the young people, who have access to information, are catching the virus.<\/p>\n

\u2018\u2018We see predominantly new infections among young people. They haven\u2019t internalised and realised that this is a problem and yet there is the availability of treatment, something that our new chairperson has to emphasise,\u2019\u2019 Dr Musoba said.<\/p>\n

Ms Milly Babalanda, the minister for Presidency, pledged continued support from the government.<\/p>\n

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