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More AIDS help urged for kids

Chicago Tribune - August 7, 2008


MEXICO CITY - The global response to the AIDS epidemic has short-changed children, health workers at the International AIDS Conference said here Wednesday.

Although governments and donors provide large amounts of money for HIV treatment in the developing world, too little of that money reaches children, said Linda Richter, a psychologist in South Africa who delivered a lecture on children at the conference.

All children in communities severely affected by HIV require support, she said, not just those infected with HIV.


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