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| Acclaimed Honduras teenage Aids activist kidnapped in street | Acclaimed Honduras teenage Aids activist kidnapped in street |
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| 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. | 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. | 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. | Now 18, Keren has spent years speaking out against stigma and discrimination. She currently runs a magazine for HIV positive children in Honduras. |
| 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. | 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. |
| "The Dunaway family is appealing for Keren to be freed because she must take her anti-retroviral medication." said a spokesperson for Llaves, the organisation Keren runs. | "The Dunaway family is appealing for Keren to be freed because she must take her anti-retroviral medication." said a spokesperson for Llaves, the organisation Keren runs. |
| Police spokesman Jorge Rodriguez said Keren had been in a car with her mother, Rosa Gonzalez, when the kidnappers struck. | |
| He said Rosa Gonzalez was released but Keren had been driven away in a red car. | |
| 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. | |
| A spokeswoman for the family, Katherine Calderon, told BBC Mundo that the kidnappers could be seeking a ransom as Keren is a well-known face in Honduras. | |
| However, she said the family was not wealthy and could not afford to pay for her release. | |
| Ms Calderon said the kidnappers had not yet contacted the family but messages of support were coming from activists in Honduras and around the world. | |
| The family is asking Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez to make a statement on the kidnapping. |