From: Brianna Howell
According to a recent report by Chile's Public Health System, over 1800 Chilean's have left hospitals while they have been carrying the HIV Virus without being informed that they were carriers. According to the Health Minister, not even half of those infected were attempted to be contacted. Supposedly, this is a result of a lack of communication between the National AIDS Commission and the Health Ministry. Already 2 people have died from complications from AIDS because they were never aware that they had the HIV Virus. Cecilia Sepúlveda, the dean of the School of Medicine at the University of Chile estimates that 40,000 Chileans are currently carrying the AIDS virus unknowingly. The government is currently making an "intense effort" towards contacting these patients to let them know that they are carriers of the virus.
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