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Africa: The Epicenter of the AIDS Pandemic

by B. Denise Hawkins , September 21, 2006

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Dr. Daraus Bukenya

According to the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, new HIV infections every year are outpacing AIDS-related deaths. In Sub-Saharan Africa, for example, there were 2.7 million new infections in 2005 and 2 million deaths. Less than one in five people at risk of becoming infected in the region have access to basic prevention services.

Says Bukenya: “ARVs, promises and appropriate health care will never be delivered; stigma will never be dealt with, and HIV will never be managed until these critical groups form part and parcel of health care delivery. It’s time to deliver, but it is also time to understand Africa.”

— By B. Denise Hawkins



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