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Article: Lifting the veil; AIDS and the Middle East.(Arab countries need to do more on AIDS)
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- The Economist (US)
- Article date:
- November 29, 2003
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A new report says that Arab countries need to do more on AIDS
WHILE HIV has a stranglehold on much of the developing world, most of the Middle East and North Africa seems to have escaped its deadly grip so far. According to UNAIDS--the United Nations agency monitoring the epidemic--there are between 470,000 and 730,000 HIV-infected people in the region. This seems to be a far cry from the situation south of the Sahara, where the average prevalence rate is more than 25 times higher.
But that could be a comforting delusion. David Robalino, co-author of a new report* on AIDS in the Middle East from the World Bank, says that official figures for the region ...