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Angola among African countries with best response to HIV-AIDS

Luanda, Nov 10 (Prensa Latina) Angola is today among the four countries in Central and Southern Africa with the best response to HIV-AIDS, according to the Global HIV-AIDS Surveillance Agency.

The country reached the fourth place in a group of 18 countries in the region, only behind Botswana, Namibia and South Africa, for being one of the countries that has invested most in response to this epidemic, although the need to strengthen prevention and community intervention has been recognized.

The Angolan Minister of Health, Sílvia Lutucuta, recently reaffirmed the political commitment, that of technicians and managers, in addition to the increase in resources allocated to the fight against HIV-AIDS, which has allowed angola to make progress.

In this sense, he mentioned the reduction of new infections and deaths related to AIDS, as well as mother-to-child transmission.

Lutucuta pointed out that 320,000 people are currently living with HIV, of whom 32,000 are children from zero to 14 years old and 200,000 are women.

The country maintains an average of 16,000 new infections per year, he added.

Angola is also working on a law aimed at responding comprehensively to the HIV-AIDS situation, replacing the one in force for 20 years and taking into account aspects such as the social inclusion of people living with the disease.

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