A report by the U.N. children's fund UNICEF found that millions of women and children, particularly in poor countries, fall through the cracks of HIV services either due to their gender, social or economic status, location or education.
While children have benefited from substantial progress made in the fight against AIDS, it said, more must be done to ensure all women and children get access to the medicines and health services designed to prevent mother-to-child HIV transmission.
According to latest United Nations data, 370,000 children were born with HIV in 2009, the vast majority of them in Africa -- the region that bears by far the highest AIDS burden.
