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New Vision - December 14, 2004
Hillary Kiirya
the Sudanese health minister, Dr. Ahmed Bilal Osman, said the number of people living with HIV/AIDS was growing, especially among the youth, women and children because of the conflict in southern Sudan.
"We have more HIV/AIDS victims in southern Sudan, the capital and the east where refugees have taken host.
"There is also a problem of condom use among the citizens and that is what we have come to learn from you so that we can apply it in our country," Osman said at an HIV/AIDS consultative meeting at the foreign affairs ministry headquarters yesterday.
Osman is leading a delegation of Sudanese government ministers and officials on a one-week visit to learn and exchange ideas on the fight against the epidemic.
Health minister Brig. Jim Muhwezi said the epidemic was not difficult to stop.
"We only need concerted effort and determination to stop the spread. The epidemic is now globally recognised as one of the developing world's largest impediments to achieving the millennium development goals," Muhwezi said.
He, however, said there were challenges like the prices of anti-retroviral drugs which are still not affordable by all.
"This may eliminate a number of those who require treatment," Muhwezi said.
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