Canada.com: HIV/AIDS prevention program being developed in Ukraine
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Canada.com: HIV/AIDS prevention program being developed in Ukraine

Jul 15, 2009 at 00:04
WINNIPEG — Winnipeg's International Centre for Infections Diseases is helping to develop a model HIV/AIDS prevention program in Ukraine, which has one of the world's fastest growing epidemics of the disease.

The ICID will be working in partnership with the University of Manitoba, UNICEF Canada and UNICEF Ukraine.

A 2008 report by the World Health Organization, UNICEF and UNAIDS estimated the number of people in Ukraine living with AIDS has more than doubled since 2001, to 440,000 from 210,000.

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