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US ambassador raises HIV/AIDS awareness

    JOHANNESBURG
    The US Ambassador to Angola, Christopher Dell, has used photography to help raise awareness on HIV/AIDS, the Angola Press Agency (ANGOP) reported on Friday. Dell's photo exhibition of the country's prime HIV/AIDS risk groups recently went on auction in the capital, Luanda. "Looking at where Angola is, and where we'd all like to see Angola go, it's obvious to me that everything we're trying to do here is all put at risk by HIV/AIDS," Dell said. He said the photographic round-up took him to brothels, truck stops and slums in parts of the country he had never seen before. Funds raised by the auction are expected to assist a national campaign on the prevention of sexually transmitted diseases.

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