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An Israeli medical team from the Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital in Jerusalem and a social worker from the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC) left for Kazakhstan on Saturday in order to assist in the treatment of 93 children infected with the HIV virus.
The children were infected after receiving a blood transfusion while being treated for pneumonia.
A number of days ago, the Kazakh authorities turned to Israel and asked for assistance in attending to the children and their family members.
Prof Shlomo Ma'ayan, head of Hadassah's AIDS Center, who received the appeal from the Foreign Ministry, said that the project was part of Israel's desire to expand the awareness of AIDS treatment.
The delegation is headed by Estelle Rubinstein, a senior social worker at the Hadassah hospital, and includes Dr Hila Elinav, an intern at the Hadassah AIDS Center, Sophia Rodnik, a social worker at the hospital, and Joint representative Vladimir Tartakovsky.