ADDIS ABEBA, Nov 13 (AFP) - US Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Health and Science Jack Chow paid an AIDS assessment trip on Wednesday to Ethiopia, one of the hardest hit countries in Africa, US diplomats said.
Chow and the State Department's Advisor for International Health, Robert Blair, was to meet Ethiopian officials to discuss the latest report out of the US National Intelligence Council, called the "The Next Wave of HIV/AIDS".
The official rate of people living with HIV/AIDS in the Horn of Africa country is 7.3 percent of a population of 65 million.
The US officials were also scheduled to meet church leaders, visit an HIV voluntary testing clinic in Addis Ababa and talk of officials of the national anti-AIDS council, representatives of the Chamber of Commerce and non-governmental organisations.
Chow's one-day trip is part of a tour which has already taken him to Namibia, South Africa, Uganda and Kenya, studying national programs to check mother-to-child transmission of AIDS and private sector initiatives to combat the spread of HIV.
He will also look at local policy on the distribution of anti-retroviral drugs.
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