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January 14, 2003
Annan: More in Danger from AIDS than Iraq
Secretary General Kofi Annan is dead on here:
More people will die this year of AIDS than even in a war in Iraq, U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan said Tuesday, trying to put a more balanced perspective on the attention riveted on Iraq while dire global health problems go unattended.It is a moral scandal that both left and right spend more time talking and organizing around Iraq than the mass deaths sweeping through Africa due to famine and AIDS.
``The worldwide AIDS epidemic will claim many more lives this year than even a war in Iraq would, and then will go on claiming more and more lives in 2004 and 2005,'' Annan told a news conference.He said famine is threatening at least 30 million lives in southern Africa and the Horn of Africa.
Posted by Nathan at January 14, 2003 06:20 PM
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