An international youth conference organised recently in the Republic of Congo (ROC) brought together hundreds of participants, who debated various issues related to the HIV/AIDS pandemic.
Participants representing the ROC were members of a national effort to raise awareness about HIV/AIDS and other issues that affecting the youth.
In an article entitled "Sex is killing us: Congolese youth take charge of their lives", Kent Page of the United Nations Children's Fund examines these issues in the ROC, where in 2001, 35 percent of urban hospital beds were occupied by patients suffering from HIV/AIDS.
[See Page's article]
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