"AIDS deaths falling sharply in eastern, southern Africa"

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AIDS deaths falling sharply in eastern, southern Africa

http://www.cbc.ca/news/health/story/2013/08/05/health-aids-deaths-africa.html

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AIDS deaths and HIV infections in eastern and southern Africa are falling dramatically, the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS says.

But Canadian AIDS activists say there's still lots of work to be done.

Michel Sidibé, executive director of the UN program, popularly known as UNAIDS, said hard work is "breaking the trajectory of the epidemic" in the region that was previously the "epicentre of the HIV crisis."

"We're seeing drops in the new infections in countries like Ethiopia. There was a reduction of new infection last year by more than 90 per cent. Malawi, where we were not having any hope, there's a reduction by 73 per cent. That's a success story."

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[LeftofObama]

1. Success story, indeed!

Thanks for posting this.