Latest / PRIDE Daily / Fiji declares a national HIV emergency
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- 1:22Speaker 5: And we'll start in Fiji, where a national HIV emergency
- 1:27Speaker 5: has been declared. One in 60 people now living with
- 1:30Speaker 5: the virus there, compared with one in 167 five years ago,
- 1:35Speaker 5: means 9,000 have HIV out of a population of 936,000.
- 1:40Speaker 5: It's thought this is being driven by unsafe sex and
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