AFRICA AIDS MEETING – AFRICAN ANTI-AIDS PROGRAMME
December 1st, 2005
BY KEITH NUTHALL
A COMPREHENSIVE reform process has been launched by the African Union (AU) to make Africa's governments raise their performance in fighting HIV/AIDS. Noting that "Africa bears the heaviest burden and yet, is least prepared to contain (the disease)", a detailed action plan has been adopted by an AU
Continental Forum 'on human rights and people infected and affected by HIV/AIDS', staged in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. This aims to set standards for governments in how they tackle the disease. For instance, its preamble says: "Due to lack ...
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