A Honduran Aids activist who gave an
impressive speech at the age of 12 at a 2008 international conference has been
abducted in the city of San Pedro Sula.
Keren Dunaway Gonzalez was seized by three gunmen while in a parked car. Her family has called for her urgent release because she needs to take anti-retroviral medication.
Now 18, Keren has spent years speaking out against stigma and discrimination. She currently runs a magazine for HIV positive children in Honduras. Keren had been in a car with her mother, Rosa Gonzalez, when the kidnappers struck. Her mother was releasebut Keren had been driven away in a red car.
At the age of 12 at the 2008 International Aids conference in Mexico City she impressed delegates with her candid description of what it was like to be a young person living with HIV/Aids.
Honduras is ranked as one of the most violent nations in the world, and kidnapping for ransom and disappearances are said to be common and under-reported.
Report has it that the kidnappers are yet to contact her parents. Her parents have asked the authorities and president to help!
I pray they find her quick and that the abductors release her soon. God help her.
what is the world turning into.. perhaps they just want her for a ransom... i pray they release her on time and unhurt... to her parents
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