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 Support The DrudgeReport; Visit Our Advertisers  Annan: AIDS worse threat to life than Iraq war Tue Jan 14 2002 13:22:31 ET New York (dpa) - 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. ;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. Politically-troubled Zimbabwe, once a bread basket in southern Africa, is now at the heart of the famine situation in that region and is wracked by HIV/AIDS. ;This tragic situation (famine) is caused partly by the forces of nature, and partly by mismanagement,'' he said. ;But the challenge now is for all Zimbabweans to work together and with each other, and with the international community, to find solutions before it its too late.'' He said Africa is undermined by poverty, which condemns mothers and children to premature death. Other children go to bed hungry and without access to clean drinking water, he said. AIDS kills more than 3 million people a year around the world, with a majority of deaths taking place in Africa because of the high rates of infected people in that continent. On casualties in case of a war in Iraq, the World Health Organization has estimated that as many as 500,000 Iraqis would need immediate medical treatment for injuries as a direct result of the conflict. END |
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