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Israel Consortium on AIDS Medicine in Africa

AIDS research, prevention and treatment in Africa

Shlomo Maayan, MD, Director of the Hadassah AIDS Center, in Jerusalem, Israel, discusses his work with the Israel Consortium on AIDS Medicine in Africa (ICAMiA) and the importance of AIDS research, prevention and treatment.

For more information on ICAMiA’s important work in Africa, please read this article from Israel’s Haaretz Newspaper:Israeli hospitals train African doctors in AIDS treatments.

To learn more about the worldwide AIDS epidemic, please visit:www.UNAIDS.org.

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