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Home > Africa: Hungry Africans' stark Aids dilemma

Contributor [1]
Monday, June 5, 2006 - 03:00
Categories: 
Health & HIV/AIDS [2]
Issue Number: 
258 [3]
Article-Summary: 

Delegates at the UN summit on Aids have been hammering out the finer details of a declaration to combat HIV/Aids. Meanwhile, 40 million people worldwide are living with the disease. Severe drought across Kenya and the Horn of Africa has meant that patients on anti-retrovirals who don't get enough to eat have been unable to tolerate their medicines. So they have stopped taking them.

Category: 
Food & Health [4]
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http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category.php/hivaids/34825 [5]

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