New initiative to curb AIDS spread

BURUNDI: New initiative to curb AIDS spread

JOHANNESBURG, 30 Jul 2004 (PLUSNEWS) - Government ministers from six countries in the Great Lakes region have signed a convention for the establishment of the Great Lakes Initiative on AIDS to stem the spread of the HI virus.

Research shows that the region has the world's second highest incidence of HIV infection, after southern Africa.

"HIV often expands due to migration, displacement and repatriation from one country to another," Burundi's minister in charge of tackling HIV/AIDS, Luc Rukingama, said in a statement.

The newly formed initiative will monitor the movement of people in the Great Lakes region.

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