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Home > Angola: HIV infection rate for pregnant women at 2.8 percent

Contributor [1]
Thursday, December 9, 2004 - 02:00
Categories: 
Health & HIV/AIDS [2]
Issue Number: 
186 [3]
Article-Summary: 

The rate of HIV infection among pregnant women in Angola is 2.8 percent, half earlier estimates, according to a new national study. A health ministry report covering all of Angola's 18 provinces found that the highest HIV rates were in southern Cunene (9 percent) and Cuando Cubango (4 percent), which border Namibia.

Category: 
Gender & Minorities [4]
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http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category.php/hivaids/26000 [5]
Country: 
Angola [6]

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