Countries Pledge to Reduce Youth HIV Infection Rate by 25 Percent

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Countries Pledge to Reduce Youth HIV Infection Rate by 25 Percent

Kyodo News Service (home.kyodo.co.jp) (12/08/00)

Officials from the Group of Eight (G-8) nations and developing countries reportedly have pledged to cut the youth HIV infection rate by 25 percent by 2005. The officials were meeting at the two-day Okinawa International Conference on Infectious Diseases, a follow-up to the G-8 nations' meeting in Okinawa in July. Japanese officials reported Friday that the participants also pledged to have 70 percent of tuberculosis (TB) patients undergo medical treatment, with a cure rate of 85 percent, and they created an action plan that called for each nation to develop a five-year TB prevention plan by November 2001.
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