Summary The girl had been rescued by police and was undergoing medical tests at a private hospital.
TEGUCIGALPA (AFP) - Honduran AIDS campaigner Keren Dunaway Gonzalez, who rose to prominence for her activism as an HIV-positive child, was rescued Tuesday following an eight-hour kidnapping ordeal, officials said.
Security Minister Arturo Corrales told a local television channel that the girl had been rescued by police and was undergoing medical tests at a private hospital in San Pedro Sula.
Dunaway Gonzalez, who wowed delegates when she gave the opening speech at the 2008 International AIDS Conference as a 12-year-old, had been seized by three gunmen as she sat in a parked pickup outside her organization s offices in the northwestern city.
Her mother, who was also in the pickup, was released a few blocks away. Police later found the vehicle abandoned nearby.
Honduras ranks among the most violent nations in the world, and the United Nations has warned that violence against women is on the rise in the small Central American country.
