Five children of the indigenous group Chimila died of a mysterious respiratory infection in the department of Magdalena, reported Radio Santa Fe Thursday. According to the department’s governor, Manuel Jose…
Since 1983 over 67,000 Colombians have been diagnosed with AIDS, the country reported on World AIDS Day. In 2009, 4,960 new HIV cases and 1,281 people with AIDS were registered…
Authorities in have confirmed Colombia’s first lethal case of H1N1, or swine flu, of 2010, which took place in the central Tolima department. The victim was a 46-year-old female school…
For every two men with HIV one woman is infected in Colombia, and this figure is steadily worsening, announced the UN and Colombia’s Ministry for Social Protection on Thursday. Two…