Articles in this section
are ordered by most recent date first
Up to 89 Million More AIDS Victims in Africa by 2025 - UN
A further 89 million people in Africa could be infected by the HIV virus by 2025 in the continent's biggest crisis since slavery, the United Nations said on Friday.
Reuters
- March 5, 2005
HIV 'set to infect 90m Africans'
Nearly 90 million Africans could be infected by HIV in the next 20 years if more is not done to combat the epidemic, the UN has warned. Some 25 million Africans have HIV, which causes Aids, at present.
BBC
- March 5, 2005
U.N.: AIDS May Kill 80M Africans by 2025
More than 80 million Africans may die from AIDS (news - web sites) by 2025, the United Nations (news - web sites) said in a report released Friday, and infections could soar to 90 million — or more than 10 percent of the continent's population — if more isn't done soon to fight the disease.
Associated Press
- March 4, 2005
Africa faces up to 89 million new HIV/AIDS infections by 2025: study
Governments could allow up to 89 million HIV (news - web sites)/AIDS (news - web sites) infections to develop virtually unchallenged in Africa over the next 20 years by failing to take effective measures and boost funding, a UN study issued warned.
Agence France Presse
- March 4, 2005
ARCHIVE
OF EARLIER NEWS ARTICLES |