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United Press International - November 14, 2008
Health Minister Alvaro Erazo said there was no attempt, in about half of the cases, to reach the patients, the New York Times (NYSE:NYT) reported Friday.
Erazo's predecessor Maria Soledad Barria was forced to resign recently when initial allegations about HIV notification surfaced. Erazo told Chile's Congress that the problem partially resulted from a lack of coordination between the National AIDS Commission and the Health Ministry.
The head of the School of Medicine at the University of Chile estimates about 40,000 people in Chile do not know that they are infected with HIV, the newspaper said.
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