World AIDS Day: Keeping baby Peter healthy

Today is World AIDS Day. Learn more about progress made over the past 5 years to reduce new infections and AIDS-related deaths! If you have been following FieldNotes over the past weeks, we hope you have enjoyed learning about the journey of Mirriam, a mother in Zambia who has helped protect her son from HIV using PMTCT, or prevention of mother-to-child transmission.
Today is World AIDS Day. Learn more about progress made over the past 5 years to reduce new infections and AIDS-related deaths! If you have been following FieldNotes over the past weeks, we hope you have enjoyed learning about the journey of Mirriam, a mother in Zambia who has helped protect her son from HIV using PMTCT, or prevention of mother-to-child transmission. As a single mother, Mirriam has many challenges ahead. She is studying to get her high school degree and soon will be putting her son through school. But we leave them here, as Peter heads towards his second birthday, HIV-free and healthy!
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You can see the earlier photo sets on our flickr album.  And you can read the full 2011 report on the global response to HIV/AIDS here.