WHO AIDS SCARE
September 1st, 2004
BY KEITH NUTHALLEUROPEAN governments should exploit the scare tactics of the 1980's when AIDS campaigns shocked promiscuous sex devotees and intravenous drug users into changing their behaviour, stemming HIV infections, the World Health Organisation has claimed. It fears dramatic increases in HIV cases in eastern Europe that are amongst the world's worst, notably in Estonia, Latvia, Russia and the Ukraine "where the epidemic continues to spread unchecked". HIV infections in Russia leapt from 530,000 in 2001 to 860,000 in 2003. Western Europe also has cause for ...
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