AEGiS-IRIN: HIV/AIDS Organisation Wins Leadership Prize

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HIV/AIDS Organisation Wins Leadership Prize

UN Integrated Regional Information Networks - September 12, 2001

An Ethiopian NGO which works to create awareness about HIV/AIDS has won the 2001 African prize for leadership, awarded by the New York-based Hunger Project. The Hiwot HIV/AIDS Prevention Care and Support Organisation (HAPCSO) was honoured for its work in helping to prevent the spread of HIV/AIDS in Ethiopia, the Hunger Project announced on Tuesday.

"Its [HAPCSO's] overall mission is to create a sensitised society that is aware of the problems of HIV/AIDS and takes concrete actions to stop its spread," read the announcement. An estimated three million Ethiopians are infected with HIV/AIDS, a disease which Ethiopian President Negaso Gidada recently described as one of the major stumbling blocks to development Bin Ethiopia.
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