AFRICA AIDS MEETING – AFRICAN ANTI-AIDS PROGRAMME

BY KEITH NUTHALL A COMPREHENSIVE reform process has been launched by the African Union (AU) to make Africa's governments raise their performance in fighting HIV/AIDS. Noting that "Africa bears the heaviest burden and yet, is least prepared to contain (the disease)", a detailed action plan has been adopted by an AU Continental Forum 'on human rights and people infected and affected by HIV/AIDS', staged in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. This aims to set standards for governments in how they tackle the disease. For instance, its preamble says: "Due to lack ...


Full access to this article can be arranged with permission from the client that first ordered it. Please contact us to request access. Entries are uploaded to our archive at least one year after being published by a client – free access is restricted to International News Services journalists for background research only. The article date indicates when copy was filed to a client, not when posted to this archive. Upon client requests, International News Services will remove such articles from the archive or not upload them in the first place. They are included to demonstrate the breadth of topics undertaken by the agency and also to help promote clients’ coverage.