Attention to AIDS.Nairobi (ENI)--Religious leaders at the International Conference on AIDS and Sexually Transmitted Infections in Africa (ICASA) have acknowledged their slow response to the pandemic pandemic /pan·dem·ic/ (pan-dem´ik) 1. a widespread epidemic of a disease. 2. widely epidemic. pan·dem·ic adj. Epidemic over a wide geographic area. n. and have urged more attention be directed to the problem. "At the moment, the AIDS epidemic remains the most devastating dev·as·tate tr.v. dev·as·tat·ed, dev·as·tat·ing, dev·as·tates 1. To lay waste; destroy. 2. To overwhelm; confound; stun: was devastated by the rude remark. crisis in the history of human health. More than 35 million people are living with HIV HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus), either of two closely related retroviruses that invade T-helper lymphocytes and are responsible for AIDS. There are two types of HIV: HIV-1 and HIV-2. HIV-1 is responsible for the vast majority of AIDS in the United States. ," John Kamau wrote in an editorial comment in Nairobi's Daily Nation newspaper. "Twenty-two million men, women and children have died, and 15,000 people are infected in·fect tr.v. in·fect·ed, in·fect·ing, in·fects 1. To contaminate with a pathogenic microorganism or agent. 2. To communicate a pathogen or disease to. 3. To invade and produce infection in. every day." It is estimated there will be 45 million new infections by 2010, despite a recent increase in funding to combat the virus. Dr. Nalini Treakeshawar, a researcher at Yale University Yale University, at New Haven, Conn.; coeducational. Chartered as a collegiate school for men in 1701 largely as a result of the efforts of James Pierpont, it opened at Killingworth (now Clinton) in 1702, moved (1707) to Saybrook (now Old Saybrook), and in 1716 was , said: "There's no denying that religion plays an important role for individuals and in communities in most African countries." He noted that 40 per cent of Africa's health care systems were controlled by faith-based organizations. |
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