MEXICO CITY: The spread of HIV as a serious aspect of Latin America's migration crisis - whether through Venezuelans forced to emigrate to obtain ...
MEXICO CITY: The spread of HIV as a serious aspect of Latin America's migration crisis - whether through Venezuelans forced to emigrate to obtain medicine or Central American migrants unaware they carry the virus - will be a focus of the world AIDS conference opening on Sunday in Mexico City.
Ahead of the conference, organizers took early-arriving participants to a clinic in Iztapalapa, one of Mexico City's poorest and most dangerous neighbourhoods. While some parts of the Mexican public health system demand that a patient's papers be in order, the Condesa clinic aims to be a"sanctuary" for migrants, Crabtree said.In Venezuela, some 120,000 people live with HIV/AIDS and need retroviral medicines, but nearly 80,000 are currently unable to obtain those drugs, she added.
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