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20.7.04

HIV/AIDS: End the Rhetoric and Save Lives, By Chinua Akukwe and Melvin Foote of Constituency for Africa (CFA)
 
The "war" on HIV/AIDS has become heated in the last few days as participants attend the 2004 international AIDS conference in Bangkok, Thailand. Unfortunately, the war that has broken out between the United States and France, and, various delegates of different ideological prisms and business orientation/persuasions have done nothing to save even one life of the millions now dying of AIDS or prevent even one young African from contracting the HIV disease.  As the war of words continue regarding the best way to fight HIV/AIDS, especially in Africa, more than 8,000 people will die today of AIDS and nearly 15,000 will become infected with HIV, an almost death sentence in many impoverished nations of the world.

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