AEGiS-IRIN: Kagame Underlines Huge Challenge Posed By AIDS

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Kagame Underlines Huge Challenge Posed By AIDS

UN Integrated Regional Information Networks - September 8, 2001

Rwandan President Paul Kagame has described the AIDS epidemic in Africa as a "challenge of unparalleled magnitude". Addressing the first AIDS vaccine conference currently underway in the US, he noted that of 36 million people affected by HIV/AIDS worldwide, 24 million are from Africa. But, he added, African governments were initiating and participating in programmes to mobilise and sensitise the continent against the dangers. Speaking about Rwanda in particular, he said the 1994 genocide played a key role in the spread of HIV/AIDS when women and young girls were systematically raped and tortured.

Rwanda was among the countries in sub-Saharan Africa most severely affected by HIV/AIDS, Kagame noted. He urged international institutions and organisations to re-establish partnerships with his country as a site for vaccine trials.
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