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...grandstanding was intended to make a serious point. Holbrooke argued forcefully that the pandemic, which infects 33.6 million people worldwide, 23.3 million of them in sub-Saharan Africa, constitutes as great a threat to international security as any military conflict. Gore warned that AIDS will probably kill as many people in the next decade as all the wars in the 20th century combined. The outgoing Clinton Administration, he promised, will ask Congress for an additional $100 million, boosting the total U.S. commitment to fighting AIDS worldwide to $325 million. Equally important, Gore confirmed that Washington is relaxing some...
...AIDS debate is only the first act in a busy agenda for council president Holbrooke, who during his month in the post wants to keep the spotlight shining on Africa. He has already held an open discussion on sub-Saharan refugees, has invited Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Jesse Helms to address the council, and is trying to broker a peace in the multicountry Congo...
...Sub-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...