Agência Brasil

Brasília - Mutual strategies for the purchase of anti-retroviral drugs will be formulated by representatives of 18 countries who have been meeting since yesterday (9) in Buenos Aires, Argentina. The negotiations are in the hands of government and non-governmental organization technical personnel from Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, the Dominican Republic, and Uruguay. All these nations belong to the Latin American and Caribbean Horizontal Technical Cooperation Group (GCTH).

The purpose of the group, which was established in 1995, is to promote greater integration among countries of the bloc to develop joint training and cooperation programs to combat HIV/AIDS.

Translation: David Silberstein