Honduras's President Manuel Zelaya and his Panamanian counterpart, Omar Torrijos, signed a free trade agreement on Friday to boost bilateral trade, according to news report from Honduras's capital of Tegucigalpa.

The trade deal was signed at the Honduras president's office in Tegucigalpa.

In recent years, trade relations between the two countries have undergone fast development, with two-way trade volume reaching 26 million U.S. dollars in 2006.

Torrijos began a 24-hour visit to Honduras on Friday. On schedule, Torrijos and Zelaya will visit Copan, a heritage site, some 300 km west of Tegucigalpa on Saturday.

After that, they will meet Guatemala's president Oscar Berger at Copan to discuss regional development.

Source: Xinhua infected on the African continent, the report added. South Africa, however, has the world's second largest number of people infected by HIV, approximately 5.5 million out of a total population of 47 million.

The report suggested African countries to strengthen and improve the social immune system, abandon bad habits which went against the AIDS prevention and rectify social activities and individual behaviour so as to prevent the spread of the disease more effectively.

Source: Xinhua