Need to address link between AIDS, lack of education, hunger, war...
From Saturday, December 07, 2002
Peter Piot, executive director of the Joint United Nations Program on HIV/AIDS, writes in the Washington Post:
Addressing the links between hunger, disease, lack of education and war is vital to long-term solutions for humanitarian emergencies. The world's most serious health problems, including HIV/AIDS, are deeply connected to the violence and poverty that shackle hundreds of millions of people around the world.
...Perhaps for the first time, southern Africa's famine brings the world face to face with the true scale of the consequences of AIDS. With 5 million new HIV infections globally this year alone, if we do not dramatically increase action against AIDS, we will be sowing the seeds of future humanitarian disasters -- and not only in southern Africa.