Prevention of Mother to Child Transmission Center at Wau Teaching Hospital, Western Bahr El Ghazal State registered another 20 babies born of positive mothers tested negative, bringing the total to 68 since the announcement of 48 negative ones in 2013.
State HIV Coordinator Natalina Waderif says the record shows that there is great hope to save more babies, disclosing that by 2020 they would ensure that all children born of HIV positive mothers are negative, Radio Voice of Hope reported.
She says it was a difficult task to achieve as they deal with illiterate people who could not accept HIV realities because many husbands do not like to hear their wives are positive statuses.
The Centre Supervisor Hellen Pio on Tuesday testified that a mother, who does not want her husband to know her status, forced her to treat a new born baby in a different apartment.
She says some mothers who were tested positive, declined to get services in the Centre and sought treatment at private health facilities due to fear of stigma.
One of the beneficiaries, 49-year-old Rapha Alberto says the results planted in her some hope and swept all her worries away and that she was excited to have a negative baby despite being positive.
The Center which is part of the antenatal care service handling pregnant mothers with HIV virus became a hope for hundreds of positive mothers.