One person dies of AIDS every day in Madagascar
By the AFREEQUE newsroom, based on L'Express de Madagascar
In Madagascar, one person dies of AIDS every day, while a hospital in Antananarivo records three to five deaths a week among young people aged 19 to 25, according to the National Programme to Combat Sexually Transmitted Infections and HIV/AIDS. HIV campaigners are warning of falling funding for prevention and the fact that condoms now have to be paid for, reports L’Express de Madagascar.
One person dies of AIDS every day in Madagascar, according to figures presented by the National Programme to Combat Sexually Transmitted Infections and HIV/AIDS (PNLIS) at a forum held on 27 and 28 October in Antananarivo. At a hospital in the capital, three to five young people aged 19 to 25 die of the disease each week, according to the PNLIS.
