UNICEF, which carries out the United Nations HIV and AIDS work in the South Pacific, has today backed down from over-stating its role in the drafting of what it then incorrectly claimed is Tonga's first HIV Strategy.

Meanwhile, Tonga's main HIV/AIDS organisation, founded by glbt people in the island Kingdom, has welcomed the continued inclusion of sexual minorities in what is in fact a draft of Tonga's second HIV Strategy which will soon be presented to the Tongan government, but is concerned that it was not consulted about input into the detail of the Strategy.

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