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Rome (Agenzia Fides) - NGO COOPI has started a programme in Peru in collaboration with Hogar San Camillo now a point of reference in the capital for 6,000 patients and their families.
The aim of the programme is to prevent mother/child transmission of AIDS through breastfeeding. For six months the mothers feed the babies on artificial milk and afterwards the babies are given nutritional integrators. The mothers are also taught how to stimulate the baby’s intelligence with games to help the process of growth and to strengthen the mother/child relation. Children already HIV+ are given a special diet to strengthen their immunity system.
With time Hogar has become a point of reference for schools, parish groups and volunteers involved in the fight against HIV/AIDS and with them it has launched a campaign of information and formation. COOPI has launched a campaign for encourage adoption at a distance of the children at the Hogar Centre (www.adottareadistanza.org, adozioneadistanza@coopi.org). (AP) (9/6/2006 Agenzia Fides; Righe:18; Parole:187)
