Important note: Information in this article was accurate in 1997. The state of the art may have changed since the publication date.
Important note: Information in this article was accurate in 1997. The state of the art may have changed since the publication date.
Reuters NewMedia, Inc. - Wednesday July 23 11:15 AM EDT
"We will go back home and efforts will be made to make drugs more available by pressuring drug companies to donate drugs to Africa," Rudolf Jackson of the Morehouse School of Medicine in Atlanta told a workshop on AIDS late Tuesday.
Sub-Saharan Africa has one of the highest rates of HIV cases in the world, and health officials say the virus that causes the deadly AIDS disease is still spreading fast.
Various workshops are running concurrently with the fourth African/African American summit that began Tuesday. African leaders will meet U.S. business executives to try and win trade, investment and economic aid for the world's poorest continent.
The workshop expressed concern at the prevalence of AIDS among people of African descent across the world, saying most had no access to expensive medication that had been found to increase the life span of people living with the disease.
A Kenyan official said AIDS was killing more blacks than whites, with 70 percent of people infected with the HIV worldwide being Africans.
In Zimbabwe, official figures show that 500 people are dying every week from AIDS.
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