Today is June 1st – Children's Day. On this day, it is especially important to remind that a lot of things in a child's life depend on adults: he is defenseless before the realities of life and needs constant care and support.
Children with HIV infection are the most vulnerable group. Every HIV-positive child requires special attention and efforts for monitoring, treatment and psychosocial support, in order to preserve his health, on an equal basis with other children, and the child's full adaptation to society.

And today we will discuss these issues with our experts.
Our guests are Larisa Alexandrova, a gender specialist at the Center for Human Rights NGO, and Tahmina Khaidarova, director of the Tajik Network of Women Living with HIV.
According to the data available in open sources, 14,800 HIV patients were registered in Tajikistan from 1991 to October 1, 2022. Of these, 1,803 are children under the age of 18. As of 2019, 130 new cases of HIV infection in children were registered. The Ministry of Health reported at the time that some children had contracted the infection from their mothers, who did not know that they were carriers of HIV.
The Human Rights Center public organization has a 24-hour legal hotline. For all questions regarding discrimination against people living with HIV, you can contact us by phone number +992 933 55 77 55 .
You can also get advice from a psychologist and other specialists at the Tajik Network of Women Living with HIV by phone number +992 98 866 19 00 .
This podcast was prepared for the Human Rights Center Tajikistan - NGO "Center for Human Rights", within the framework of the project "Reducing stigma and discrimination against PLHIV and KG in Tajikistan", funded by the Elton John AIDS Foundation.

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