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...world, according to a report from the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) in Geneva. The virus continues to plague Africa, where it has killed more than 2 million people this year. Cambodia, Thailand and Uganda won praise for their prevention campaigns. But unaids executive director Peter Piot said that the crisis "will get worse before it gets better" and warned of complacency in the West. The report came out in advance of World AIDS Day, which was marked with vigils, memorial services and fund raisers. ISRAEL Internal Dissent A suicide bombing overshadowed Prime Minister Ariel Sharon?s departure...
...countries gathered for China's first conference on AIDS, amid accusations that HIV sufferers had been excluded from the meeting. Health Minister Zhang Wenkang said the goal was to slow the rate of new infections from 30% now to 10% per year by 2005. UN AIDS executive director Peter Piot said the conference was a sign of more openness, but a group of people infected by blood banks in Henan province said they had been prevented from attending UNITED STATES New Friendship Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. President George W. Bush concluded three days of talks, cementing what Bush...
...Peter Piot, Director of UNAIDS, has said that, "the great moral test of our time is how the rich countries respond to the AIDS crisis." As America decides how to spend a $5.4-trillion projected surplus, it must bear in mind that enormous good can be done for less than $10 billion. Last year, the United States contributed about $350 million to fighting global AIDS; this year, it should multiply that amount several times. Stone Professor of International Trade Jeffrey D. Sachs '76 and others have estimated that dramatic gains in fighting AIDS in Africa can be had for only...
...report is very sobering," says Dr. Peter Piot, who directed the study. Today five young people contract HIV/AIDS somewhere in the world every minute. At highest risk are African women ages 15 to 24; they are two to three times as likely as young men to be HIV positive, owing to their having sex with older male partners--a heavily infected population in Africa...
...Still, Piot saw some signs of hope. Uganda, the first African country to adopt a nationwide prevention program stressing safe sex with condoms, has seen its HIV-infection rate among teenage girls drop from almost 5% in 1990 to 1.5% today...