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Agency: Africa needs to act against Alj
LUSAKA, Zambia (AP) — AIDS, not
war, has turned Africa into a “killing field”
and will wipe out enough adults to create
13 million orphans in the next 18 months,
the United Nations children’s agency said
yesterday.
Such cataclysmic statements at the
11th international AIDS in Africa confer
ence were aimed at prodding African gov
ernments — which spend more on de
fense than on health — to act against the
scourge of the continent.
Africa is home to two-thirds of the
world’s 31 million HIV-infected people.
Last year, AIDS killed 2 million Africans,
outstripping deaths from armed conflicts
on the continent 10-1, said UNICEF, the
children’s fund.
In 15 years, AIDS has killed 11 million
Africans, more than 80 percent of the
world’s AIDS deaths.
“By any measure, the HIV-AIDS pan
demic is the most terrible undeclared war
in the world, with the whole of sub-Sa
haran Africa a killing field,” UNICEF ex
ecutive director Carol Bellamy said on the
conference’s third day.
Ninety percent of the world’s AIDS or
phans live in Africa and most suffer
“alarmingly higher rates of malnutrition.
stunting and illiteracy,” UNICEF said.
“They often die of neglect and are victim
ized by the stigma surrounding the disease. ”
The number of child-headed households
is rising sharply, the UNICEF report said.
“The HIV-AIDS pandemic
is the most terrible
undeclared war in the
world...."
— Carol Bellamy
UNICEF executive director
In many southern African nations up
to 25 percent of adults are infected with
the AIDS virus — the highest prevalence
in the world. In Zambia alone, 90,000
AIDS orphans have been left to fend for
themselves on the streets.
Bellamy said decades of gains for child
survival and development are being
wiped out by the disease.
Lack of AIDS education is part of the
problem, the group said.
More than a quarter of i
women south of the Sahara-
most at risk from infection wil
virus that causes AIDS — were
of any effective way of avoid
ease, research has shown. 1
Africa, more than 30 percem
women felt a healthy-lool
could not be a carrier.
The threat has been woi
lamy said, by the lack ofcoi
from political leaders to figh;
amounts to a “conspiracy ofs
hide the seriousness of thecris
dinary people, she said.
The United States spends$8!
fighting about 40,000 new AID:
year. All of Africa spends abow
lion fighting 4 million new cas
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mobilize community educatiouF
priority. She called for them tsl
for the year 2002, including:
• making adolescent women
how to protect themselves.
• giving up to 70 percent of;
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