Ashley Judd is visiting San Salvador, El Salvador, to join 3,000 Latin American politicians, police chiefs, doctors and activists in a regional forum on HIV.
Judd, who has been the ambassador of U.S.-based project Youth AIDS since 2002, on Wednesday met briefly with Salvadorian Foreign Minister Francisco Lainez, who thanked her for her visit.
"She can raise interest among the public and politicians about the need to increase efforts to prevent the spread of AIDS," Lainez said.
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AIDS activists hope Latin American governments will sign commitments by the end of the conference on Friday to make medicine more easily available to HIV sufferers.