TWENTY of every 100 pregnant women who attend ante-natal consultations in Mozambican health units are infected with HIV, the virus that causes the lethal disease Aids, according to Martinho Djedje, representative for the Coordinating Council of the Health Ministry, which has been meeting in Maputo since Monday. Djedje said the situation was made worse because there is no systematic follow-up to assist the HIV-positive women. “So one of the packages we want to develop is a follow-up mechanism in order to reduce the number of mother to child transmissions of HIV,” said Djedje. – Pana