Latin American Ministers to Design HIV/AIDS Strategy
Devising a strategy to curb HIV/AIDS across Latin America will be the subject of an August 1 meeting of regional health and education ministers in Mexico City, Prensa Latina reports (plenglish.com, 7/24).
“Prevention is the most important task that we want to carry out as a joint effort by the governments,” says Mauricio Hernandez, the Mexican undersecretary for prevention and health promotion.
Seventeen health ministers and 12 education officials from 16 Latin American and Caribbean countries will participate in the meeting, scheduled two days before the 17th International Conference on AIDS in Mexico City from August 3-8.
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nelson severino, CASA GRANDE, 2008-08-02 17:29:17
no tengo ucha esperiensa en cosa del seguro ,tengo mas de 23 ano con vih y nunca es resibido una ayuda,gracia att nelson
RZ, Washington, DC, 2008-07-31 13:58:00
They better include a campaign to reduce homophobia in macho Hispanic cultures -- gov't, education, churches -- the works. And so should we all. Otherwise it's just allowing mass murder of gay men and the women they sometimes infect.
Beth Benne, RN, is HIV negative, but
the virus has impacted her life. She currently supervises a biannual HIV/AIDS awareness week as
the director of the student health center at Pierce College, a
community commuter school in Woodland Hills, California.
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"I recently met a guy who is negative. I did tell him about my status and he decided to kiss me anyway (we didn't go further than that). But a day later, he called and said that he actually had a mouth ulcer that time when we kissed and he was very worried. Asked if he can get the virus from me that way. For that moment, I felt so insulted and yet I felt so bad. It was my first time having a contact with a "negative" guy."
