|A child holds a dose antiretroviral drugs at a UNICEF-supported
youth centre in Port-au-Prince, Haiti that provides food,
shelter, medicine and psycho-social care for children affected
by HIV/AIDS.| By Kun Li NEW YORK, USA, 13 June 2006 – Twenty-
five years of the AIDS pandemic have redefined the very meaning
of childhood. On 15-16 June, a special ‘Childhood and AIDS’
conference in Paris, France will highlight the urgent need to
help millions of children who have been left vulnerable by this
worldwide catastrophe. "One thousand children die every day
because of HIV/AIDS-related illnesses, only 1 in 20 children has
access to paediatric treatment, more than 15 million children
are orphaned because of AIDS and yet children are the missing
face of AIDS," said UNICEF Deputy Executive Director Rima Salah,
who will speak at the conference. Each day, another 1,800
children become infected with HIV, most from mother-to-child
transmission. Poor access to antiretroviral treatment has
resulted in an estimated 380,000 chi