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Africa Welcomes $15B From U.S. for AIDS
29 January 2003
By The Associated Press
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (AP) -- President Bush's pledge to give $15 billion for AIDS relief in Africa and the Caribbean was hailed by a U.N. official Wednesday [29 January] as a "dramatic signal" the United States was ready to confront the pandemic, while others working with the devastating illness said far more was needed.
An estimated 29.4 million people in sub-Saharan Africa are infected with HIV, out of 42 million afflicted worldwide. Only several thousand people across the continent have access to lifesaving AIDS medicine that is readily available in developed countries.
...Many Africans have no health care at all and cannot even get medicine to fight ailments such as pneumonia and tuberculosis that prey on those with HIV. There are huge shortages of doctors, nurses and clinics.
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category: News from Other Sources : AIDS News
contributed by Andrea Welch on 30 January 2003
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