Mozambique: 44,000 Deaths Related to HIV/Aids Recorded Over the Last Year

Maputo — Mozambican Prime Minister Benvinda Levi announced on Monday that the country recorded, over the last year, 44,000 deaths related to HIV/AIDS, including 10,000 children.

According to the Prime Minister, who was speaking on Monday at the ceremony marking the World AIDS Day, which is celebrated worldwide (except for the United States) on 1 December, the health authorities also recorded, over the last year, 92,000 new HIV infections, 37 percent of which occurred among adolescents and young…