THE HIV and Aids infection rate in Cameroon has increased more than 20-fold over the past decade and would most likely rise further, the World Bank said this week. ”The current rate of infection is 11%, which is very high, and we think it will continue to rise,” said Robert Calderisi, the Bank’s country director for Cameroon. That figure compares with a 0.5% infection rate in the sexually active population in 1987. Last month the World Bank approved a $50m fund for Cameroon’s anti-AIDS programme, which Calderisi admitted had come late compared to other African countries. – Reuters
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