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11/23/2004:

"Generations of Africans will be affected by AIDS"

AIDS has hit sub-Saharan Africa so badly that the disease will cast a shadow over generations to come, even in countries that succeed in the battle against it, the United Nations has warned.

Africans account for some 25.4 million of the 39.4 million people around the world who have either the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) or AIDS, the UN's World Health Organisation (WHO) and UNAIDS said in an annual report.

Full Article : abc.net.au