Estimated worldwide HIV infections: 43 171 782 on Thursday September 6 2001
Legal issues: Governments across the world must pass laws that forbid discrimination against people with HIV, executive director of UNAids Dr Peter Piot said at the World Conference against Racism on Wednesday.
Call for help: Minister of Social Development Dr Zola Skweyiya urged South Africans to support a “Serve-a-Thon” – an initiative aimed at boosting the number of volunteers at centres for people with disabilities, orphanages for children infected with HIV/Aids or affected by the disease, old age homes and pension pay-outs.
Clinical trials: An anti-Aids vaccine should be on the market in the near future, researchers said on Wednesday from a conference of international Aids specialists in Philadelphia. “A new generation of promising HIV vaccine candidates is now in human trials in the United States and around the world,” said Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.
Concerned commuters: Drivers of Rwanda’s minibus taxis have called through their public transport association, Atraco, for the opening of HIV clinics near bus stations where they pick up customers, Radio Rwanda reported on Thursday.