Government creates awareness with testing campaign.

San Salvador (EFE).- Thousands of Salvadorans went Friday to hospitals, shopping centers and parks for free HIV testing as part of a government campaign to bring down the levels of infection.



On National HIV Test Day, being held for the third straight year, more than 60,000 Salvadorans were expected to take advantage of the free testing, Deputy Health Minister Violeta Menjivar said.



“I say with great satisfaction that in El Salvador, as everywhere else in the world, we are getting ready to conquer this epidemic,” Menjivar said during a ceremony at a Salvador mall kicking off the day’s activities.