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Central African Republic: No Refuge From HIV
Jan 17, 2007
by UN Integrated Regional Information Networks
After the traumas of war and forced exile, HIV is an additional hardship for many refugees living in the small huts of clay and straw in a camp at Molangue, Central African Republic (CAR), near the border with the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).
According to the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR), almost 20,000 refugees, mainly from Sudan, the DRC and Chad, fled war and violence in their countries and settled in camps and urban areas in the CAR. The camp at Molangue, about 150km east of the capital, Bangui, accommodates over 700 Congolese refugees.
The CAR became independent in 1960, only to be plagued by political instability and coups for over three decades. After democratic elections in 1993, Ange-Felix Patasse took power but was overthrown by current President Francois Bozize in 2003, who won a presidential election in May 2005.
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category: News from Other Sources : AIDS News
contributed by Olga Zhuykova on 17 January 2007
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