AFRICA: Time for a rethink on AIDS campaigns - UNAIDS
wow.gm - Friday was annual World AIDS Day but despite a boom in publicity campaigns such as this one, the disease continues to spread in Africa because basic details about the illness are not reaching the right people, UNAIDS has warned. According to a report released last week by the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), 4.3 million new cases of HIV were registered in 2006 and 65 percent of them were in Africa. Some three million people met an early death because of HIV/AIDS in 2006,...» view full story