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© 2002 Leslie Reti from a Day in the Life of Africa
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| In the Perinatal HIV Unit at Baragwanath Hospital in Soweto, health workers test an infant whose mother has been diagnosed HIV positive. Mother-to-child HIV transmission is a huge problem in South Africa. A single dose of the AIDS drug nevirapine given to a mother in labor - and her newborn - can cut the risk of HIV transmission in half, but as of 2002, it was often not available to poor mothers.
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|  | | | Australian/Melbourne Leslie Reti is a practicing obstetrician/gynecologist with an interest in public health. He has been a keen photographer for many years and it was this combination of interests that led to his assignment at Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital, which serves the black township of Soweto, near Johannesburg. | | | | | | | 
