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Photo: AP, Aug. 11, 2000
 Eight-year-old Miguelina Encarnacion, infected with the AIDS virus at birth, has her weight checked at the Robert Reid Children's Hospital in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. In this Caribbean nation of 8 million an estimated 2.3 percent of the population is HIV positive and the government doesn't pay for the drugs that can help keep the virus in check. Very few people can afford the estimated $1,000-a-month cost of medicines.