"It was like a stone had been lifted from my heart when I found out my baby doesn't have my HIV," says Malekena, mother to baby Mankhube in Lesotho.

Malekena found out the dreadful news that she was HIV positive when she was a few months pregnant.

She was desperately worried.

A baby is born with HIV almost every minute of every day.

But it doesn't have to be this way.

We treated Malenkena with special medicine and care during pregnancy, birth and breastfeeding.

And this meant that  her little baby Mankhube is healthy and HIV free.

A third of babies with HIV won't live to see their second birthday if they don't get treatment. Much of their short lives will be filled with sickness and pain.

So help us do something about it.

You can save babies like Mankhube

You can save a mother from anguish and a baby from the suffering of HIV. Donate now, using the form on the right.

• $39 - HIV tests for 30 mothers-to-be - the first crucial step in identifying and treating HIV positive mothers
• $140 -  all the medicine and care to ensure a baby is born HIV-free.

As Mankhube proves, babies can be born free of their mother’s horrific virus with Prevention of Mother to Child Transmission treatment. It's extremely effective: 98% babies are born HIV-free with our treatment. It's the most effective intervention yet against the HIV epidemic.

You can see Malekena's relief and hope in the photo above. Isn’t a mother's joy the most beautiful picture in the world?

Please, we're relying on you to help mothers promise their babies an HIV-free life. Donate now, using the form on the right.