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"The boys and girls who live with HIV are here and we are growing up with many goals," [Keren Dunaway] said Sunday at the opening of an international AIDS conference where she shared the stage with Mexican President Felipe Calderon and U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.
In Latin America, 55,000 of the nearly two million people with the virus were under 15 years old, the vast majority of them infected by their mothers. Only 36 per cent of pregnant women in the region receive medicine to prevent transmission, although that is an increase of 26 per cent since 2004. At age nine, Keren began accompanying her parents, founders of the AIDS advocacy group "Llaves," on talks to schools. She has visited half a dozen countries to share her story.See the full content of this document
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Hiv No Barrier to 12-Year-Old
Girl already prominent activist
By Alexandra OlsonMEXICO CITY -- Keren Dunaway was five when her parents used drawings to exp...See the full content of this document
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