UNICEF Ambassador David Beckham meets Tamara, who is living with HIV, and her son Sesiphi, who was born free from HIV thanks to the treatment provided by the UNICEF-supported Mothers2Mothers centre.
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In the week of World AIDS Day, UNICEF Ambassador David Beckham visited a UNICEF-supported programme in a clinic in Khayelitsha township in Cape Town, South Africa where he met and talked to pregnant young women and new mums who are living with HIV.
The UNICEF-supported ‘Mothers to Mothers’ (M2M) programme provides HIV-positive pregnant women and new mums with vital education and support that helps to prevent them passing HIV to their unborn babies.
David Beckham said, “It gives me such hope that in a country like South Africa where over 5 million people are living with HIV, this inspiring work is being done by UNICEF and their partners to help prevent the virus passing from pregnant mothers to their newborn children. The solution is cheap and it’s simple and can help save the lives of hundreds of thousands of children each year....
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