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10/13/2004:

"Aids spreading to rural Africa"

Addis Ababa - Africa's farmers and rural communities have become the forgotten victims of HIV/Aids, health experts and political leaders from the across the continent were told on Tuesday at a conference in Addis Ababa.

Rural communities are being torn apart while the bulk of Aids prevention and support work focuses on the continent's cities, according to speakers at the United Nations Commission on HIV/Aids and Governance in Africa (CHGA).

Full Article : news24.com