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Jamaica: Living with HIV

Written byJanine Mendes-Franco
Posted 12 June 2008 12:17 GMT

Geoffrey Philp highlights the reporting of poet Kwame Dawes, who has been examining the HIV/AIDS crisis in Jamaica, while DigiActive says that “the Jamaican government went as far as preventing its country’s leading gay rights group from even attending the (UN AIDS) New York meeting”.

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