Battles for recognition in HIV-positive Latin America

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Battles for recognition in HIV-positive Latin America
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"Politicians don't include indigenous people in their anti-AIDS campaigns, it's as if we're asexual or don't exist," said Amaranta Gomez, a Mexican Zapotec transvestite, at the first world AIDS meeting in Latin America.

From Peru to Guatemala, hundreds of activists, from priests to transsexuals, travelled to the Mexican capital for the International AIDS conference this week, to voice their concerns to some 22,000 scientists, policymakers and field workers.