| Subject: LUSA: Government Confirms First
Three Cases of HIV/AIDS
27 Dec 01 12:58 East Timor: Government Confirms First Three Cases of
HIV/AIDS
East Timor´s health ministry Thursday formally confirmed the
territory´s first cases of HIV/AIDS infection.
In a statement, the ministry said three members of an unidentified
family had been found with the HIV virus and were receiving
"assistance and help.
"It is estimated that the family contracted the virus in the last
three to four years", the ministry said.
A report obtained by Lusa in Dili in July 2000 indicated the existence
of at least two cases of HIV/AIDS and called for an "immediate policy
of education and consciousness raising", including the provision of
condoms in the predominantly Catholic territory.
That report underlined that "conditions" existed for the
spread of the global pandemic in East Timor, including increases in
prostitution and drug abuse, and traditional "cultural
pressures" limiting the public discussion of the problem.
SAS -Lusa-
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