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Integrated Regional Information Networks - December 2, 2004
JOHANNESBURG (PLUSNEWS) - HIV/AIDS is the disease most important to Africans, West Asians and Latin Americans, while people elsewhere fear cancer, according to research companies Gallup International and South Africa-based Markinor.
Of more than 50,000 people interviewed in over 60 countries for their annual 'Voice of the People' survey, 42 percent mentioned cancer as the most threatening illness, 27 percent rated HIV/AIDS as the top disease and 15 percent named heart attacks and strokes.
The study also noted that cancer - considered the most feared disease overall - was mentioned by only one percent of interviewees in Africa.
A local newspaper, The Cape Times, quoted Markinor as saying: "Africa was also the region where most people mentioned the [United Nations] Millennium Goal of combating HIV/AIDS ... In Africa, women and young people are generally even more concerned than other groups."
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