PANA
The Angolan government on Monday opened a counselling and testing center in a suburb of Luanda for sexually transmitted diseases and HIV/AIDS.
The US$1.5 million facility has a laboratory as well as consultation and waiting rooms. According to statistics at the Angolan Health Ministry, 26,698 cases of HIV/AIDS were reported in the country, which is a 5% prevalence rate.
UNAIDS declared last November that 330,000 children will become orphans in Angola by 2010 due to AIDS. Angola is said to have the lowest HIV/AIDS prevalence rate in Southern Africa.
The Angolan government on Monday opened a counselling and testing center in a suburb of Luanda for sexually transmitted diseases and HIV/AIDS.
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