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The UN has sounded an alarm over the number of primary school teachers dying of Aids in Kenya. The country is among those likely to suffer shortages of primary school teachers because of Aids deaths, the United Nations says in a new global report. Other countries listed in the report include Uganda, Swaziland, Zambia and Zimbabwe. "Without forward planning, there will be great difficulty for these countries meeting their school enrolment targets and an acceptable pupil-to-teacher ratio, says the 2004 report of the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/Aids (UNAIDS).