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United Nations, New York, New York—AIDS could threaten world peace, declares
Carol Bellamy, who heads the United Nation's Children's Fund, Unicef. Ms. Bellamy
characterizes sub-Saharan Africa as a vast killing field.
A major increase in international funds is urgently needed to tackle AIDS now, she stated,
stressing that time is running a vicious race against hope. |
 Carol Bellamy |
In continent-wide warfare, approximately two-hundred thousand persons were slain in 1998.
In the same period, AIDS brought quieter but painful deaths to approximately two million Africans.
At a recent AIDS conference in Zambia, a conference conspicuous for the absence there
of heads- of-those-AIDS-ravaged-states in the hardest hit region of the world, Ms. Bellamy
spoke of the folly that has thus far characterized the international community's response to AIDS.
Defenses against AIDS, she insisted, must be given equal priority with military defenses.
She emphasized the enormous economic threat to people everywhere that now looms as
Africa's citizens flail in the throes of AIDS deaths in greater and greater numbers.
Carol Bellamy said:
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"By any measure the HIV Aids pandemic is the most terrible undeclared war
in the world, with the whole of sub-Saharan Africa virtually a killing
field. The hour is late; time is running out
''The monstrous proportions of the HIV/Aids pandemic in sub-Saharan Africa
show that far from (being) simply another new problem among other
development problems, the disease is rapidly becoming a significant and
growing threat to peace and stability throughout the entire world."
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