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Integrated Regional Information Networks - August 14, 2002
Participants representing the ROC were members of a national effort to raise awareness about HIV/AIDS and other issues that affecting the youth.
In an article entitled "Sex is killing us: Congolese youth take charge of their lives", Kent Page of the United Nations Children's Fund examines these issues in the ROC, where in 2001, 35 percent of urban hospital beds were occupied by patients suffering from HIV/AIDS.
[For Page's article see: http://www.reliefweb.int/w/rwb.nsf/6686f45896f15dbc852567ae00530132/20de5fad8d661c5285256c0e00725490?OpenDocument]
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