CIAO DATE: 08/04

Factsheet: AIDS in Africa - State of Emergency

Abstract

A than 75% of the world's HIV/AIDS cases. Africa has been hardest hit by HIV/AIDS because poverty has left its people most vulnerable. Inadequate access to health care services in Africa has fueled the spread of the disease. Meanwhile, racism has prevented an urgent international response and continues to cost millions of African lives.

Throughout Africa, organizations and activists are taking action to prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS and to provide care to those already living with the disease. But their efforts are hindered by insufficient resources. These efforts are also impeded by U.S. government policies that block Africans' own initiatives to fight HIV/AIDS.

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