Later, Mrs. Bush visited the Korle-Bu clinic, which treats 150 to 220 AIDS patients three times a week. She met a woman who cares for children who have lost their parents to AIDS, HIV-positive women taking antiviral drugs and children with the disease who are struggling to maintain normal lives.
``A big problem here is stigma and discrimination,'' Dr. Nii Addo, program director for national AIDS control in Ghana, said, adding that people still fear shaking hands with AIDS sufferers.
``It's really important to reach out to people who are HIV positive or who have AIDS and also to reach out to people around the world who don't — to get the word out and get the education out so that people can avoid ever getting AIDS,'' Mrs. Bush said. ``When somebody who has AIDS speaks, then you put a real face on the disease.''
— Associated Press
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