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...Saharan Africa 4,000,000 South & Southeast Asia 1,200,000 East Asia & Pacific 200,000 Latin America 160,000 Eastern Europe & Central Asia 80,000 Caribbean 45,000 North America 44,000 Western Europe 30,000 North Africa & Middle East 19,000 Australia & New Zealand 600 Total 5.8 million...
...vaccine] was only recommended to students going to sub-Saharan Africa," Lardner said...
Africa is filled with fatherless, motherless families like the Daitons. Last week the Joint United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) and UNICEF released the first detailed count of the number of children left orphaned by AIDS in sub-Saharan Africa: 10 million and rising. In some countries, 10% of children under 15 have been orphaned by AIDS. There may be 30 million more...
...Wednesday, the United Nations announced that over 11 million children have been orphaned by AIDS, with 95 percent of those orphans in sub-Saharan Africa. The effect of AIDS in these countries, which still lack adequate containment mechanisms, let alone treatment, is a daily terror. The region, which makes up less than five percent of the world's population, has been the home of more than half of the world's documented AIDS cases...
However, this is only the most blatant example of what UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan called a "conspiracy of silence." In the streets of the United States and Europe as much as the cities of sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia, AIDS continues to be an epidemic...