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U.S. Actress Tea Leoni Visits Vietnam as UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador

October 7, 2005

Tea Leoni, in her capacity as UNICEF goodwill ambassador, visited Vietnam this week to help fundraise for the Global Campaign for Children and AIDS. Leoni visited young people at a Hanoi support center for HIV patients and appeared at several schools in the city. UNAIDS estimates that 220,000 children and adults in Vietnam have HIV, the third-highest of patients in the region after Thailand and Myanmar. Although Vietnam once had one of the lowest rates of HIV infection in Southeast Asia, 0.4 percent, infections are now on the rise. Other stops on Leoni's tour included Ho Chi Minh City and Ha Long Bay in Quang Ninh province.

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Associated Press,
10.05.2005



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