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AFRICA: HIV/AIDS not seen as serious - survey

JOHANNESBURG, 2 April (PLUSNEWS) - The latest Afrobarometer survey by the Institute for Democracy in South Africa (IDASA), suggests that ordinary Africans do not share professional forecasts on the impact of HIV/AIDS on the continent.

IDASA public opinion service programme manager, Bob Mattes, said interviews with 23,000 adults showed that many people, especially in east and southern Africa, had either lost family or friends to the pandemic, or suffered significant AIDS-related burdens.

"Yet ordinary Africans do not share the experts' forecasts of the dire consequences of the pandemic," Mattes was quoted by the South African Press Association as saying.

With the exceptions of South Africa, Namibia, and Botswana, African publics were not even convinced HIV/AIDS constituted a public problem worthy of government attention.

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