The embargo prevented Cuba's cardiology programme from obtaining consumables used in interventional cardiology procedures directly from the manufacturers.

UNICEF, WHO and such partners as USAID are looking for solutions to the challenges of paediatric HIV care and the cost of paediatric formulations of ARVs.

In many cases, access to these new, more efficient products is limited by their global availability and price, or the lack of paediatric formulations (e.g., fixed dose combinations for paediatric AIDS treatment).

Telehealth had been successfully used for pathology, radiology, magnetic resonance imaging, cardiology and further medical consultations.

While still in a research phase, stem cells may one day herald a quantum leap in the field of cardiology.

While celebrating its tenth anniversary, the World Programme of Action for Youth is getting rid of its paediatric problems.

While the mid term review has helped to sharpen the focus of UNICEF, preventing and addressing paediatric AIDS remain a major challenge.

China's Ministry of Health and UNICEF launched the country's first paediatric AIDS care and treatment initiative, in partnership with the Clinton Foundation.

Five courses have been offered, namely, water supply technology, hotel management, infectious paediatric nursing, environmental impact assessment and integrated coastal zone management.

Well there was a little piece of that Women's Health Initiative that went to National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, which is the cardiology part of the NIH.

I think this aspect of training in cardiology that the Heart Institute of the Caribbean has introduced in Jamaica is very important in terms of diagnosing cardiac diseases.

Currently, close to 90 per cent of paediatric infections are in sub Saharan Africa, the hub for over 60 per cent of the global HIV disease burden.

We have taken care of over 1,000 indigent patients that could have died, including four free pacemakers in patients with complete heart block. For those that understand cardiology, complete heart block means certain death.

They are the general guidelines for the organization and standardization of emergency obstetric care (2000), the protocol for obstetric and paediatric care (2001) and the abortion care protocol (2002).

Remain gravely concerned that 2.3 million children are living with HIV AIDS today, and recognize that the lack of paediatric drugs in many countries significantly hinders efforts to protect the health of children

One of the experts, Dr Peter Richards, consultant paediatric neuro surgeon at John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, said This would be compatible with him having suffered a shaking injury involving handling at greater force than encountered in everyday life.

The goals of the Unite for Children, Unite Against AIDS campaign support a range of child centred approaches to combating the AIDS pandemic, including primary prevention and education, paediatric AIDS treatment and services to prevent mother to child transmission of HIV.

And the last slide I want to show you is from I was again, this swami that I studied with for so many years, and I did a combined oncology and cardiology Grand Rounds at the University of Virginia medical school a couple of years ago.

The Regional Director reiterated the resolve of UNICEF to scale up responses to HIV AIDS prevention, prevention of mother to child transmission of HIV (PMTCT), paediatric AIDS, protection of OVC and to increase cross agency unified approaches as in three ones joint action plans.

He had proposed to the Forum the idea of a global commodity subsidy for children, to ensure that children in low income countries received such essential life saving commodities as insecticide treated nets, new drugs for malaria, paediatric ARVs and certain underutilized vaccines at subsidized costs.

With respect to the Committee's questions regarding women's health, she noted that her Government had previously set up a commission to revise the law on family planning, that abortion was indeed illegal in Gabon, and that there were paediatric medical centres in the capital, Libreville, and throughout the country.

Commit ourselves to intensifying investment in and efforts towards the research and development of new, safe and affordable HIV AIDS related medicines, products and technologies, such as vaccines, female controlled methods and microbicides, paediatric antiretroviral formulations, including through such mechanisms as Advance Market Commitments, and to encouraging increased investment in HIV AIDS related research and development in traditional medicine

Out of more than 100 projects from all over the world, the American organization Paediatric Dengue Vaccine Initiative (PDVI) and the National Vaccine Institute (IVD) of the Republic of Korea selected one from the Centre for Genetic and Biotechnological Engineering of Cuba, because of its substantial prospects for obtaining a vaccine against dengue, a disease affecting many developing countries.

Specific targets are to reduce by 40 per cent the number of new paediatric infections increase to 80 per cent the proportion of HIV positive mothers receiving anti retrovirals (ARVs) to extend their lives and prevent mother to child transmission of HIV (PMTCT) and strengthen government capacities to ensure that women and children receive an equitable share of ARV treatment.