UNITAID has created a market for child-friendly HIV medicines and spurred the development of easy-to-take formulations to improve treatment outcomes.

Thanks to UNITAID's large purchase of medicines over the long term, paediatric HIV medicines have been reduced by 80%, allowing for the care of many more children.

Grace and Nelson are 15 and 18. They are both orphans from small Kenyan towns. They were taken into Nyumbani Children's Home in Nairobi when their illness became too much to cope with - Grace just one year ago, Nelson when he was 9 years old. Both suffered the scorn of family members because they were born with the illness most people in small Kenyan towns and villages shun - HIV/AIDS.

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