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10/15/2004:

"Africa braces itself for AIDS time bomb"

Africa must brace itself for an AIDS time bomb as 8,000 people are infected with HIV a day in the region worst hit by the pandemic, the United Nations warned Thursday.

Seventy per cent of the 45 million people worldwide infected with HIV live in sub-Saharan Africa - even though the region is home to only 11 per cent of the world's population, said a fund set up to combat three of the world's most devastating diseases

Full Article : brunei-online.com