Wednesday, November 7, 2007

Central America bears brunt of HIV/AIDS

A United Nations report revealed that Central America suffers the brunt of HIV/AIDS in Latin America.

The Joint United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) reported that 1.7 million people have HIV, including 208,6000 also with AIDS, in Central America. The report included Belize and Panama in the regional report.

UNAIDS is part of the fifth Central American People With HIV/AIDS Encounter, a conference in Managua, Nicaragua, to assist people with HIV/AIDS.

Read more here. Also, check out this organization that heps AIDS victims specifically in Latin America.

Source: ChinaView

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