HIV Strikes Every Third African - WHO

Society | August 2, 2006, Wednesday // 00:00

The fatal HIV virus has hit one in every three Africans, according to a World Health Organization (WHO) report.

The high percentage of people infected with HIV on the continent is a result of the lack of basic knowledge on the ways of illness transmission, and disregard of the graveness of the situation.

At least three million Africans were infected over the last year alone. More than a half of them were young people under 30.

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