The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and the United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) yesterday identified ways to ensure success in the battle against Human Immuno-deficiency Virus (HIV)/Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS).

According to the UNAIDS, the world has the tools necessary to achieve an HIV-free generation, especially if more attention is given to the elimination of mother-to-child transmission of HIV by 2015, expansion of anti-retroviral kits to 50 million people by the same year, and the implementation of innovative prevention techniques to stop new infections.

The UN Under-Secretary-General and Executive Director of UNAIDS, Dr. Michel Sidibe who raised this hope at the opening of the Seventh Summit of African First Ladies Peace Mission yesterday in Abuja, noted that for a long time, Africa had no other choice than to manage an emergency situation, but that now, the world had the science and ability to eliminate the transmission of HIV from mother to child.