Every Tuesday is Well Baby Day at the African Medical Mission’s Itipini clinic: as many as 70 babies arrive throughout the day for immunizations and routine care.

The clinic provides a milk supplement and gives a nutritional vitamin to babies over one year of age, and to any other older toddlers who appear to need a nutritional boost.

Well Baby service is also offered once a month at the nearby Bethany House orphanage, home to around 70 infants and toddlers.

Pregnant women receive multivitamins, folic acid, ferrous sulfate, and nutritional supplements. The clinic staff encourages each expectant mother to be tested for HIV.

HIV positive babies and mothers receive prophylactic antibiotics

HIV positive mothers, who are unable to nurse their babies, receive formula.

The clinic also offers family planning education, contraceptive injections, oral contraceptives, and condoms.

Between 25 and 30 percent of pregnant women in South Africa are HIV positive.