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At-Risk Populations
African governments urged to respond to needs of women and orphans
January 6th, 2005
The life expectancy of African women has been dramatically reduced by their vulnerability to HIV/AIDS, while the number of orphans created by the pandemic is soaring, Paulo Roberto Teixeira of the Commission on HIV/AIDS and Governance in Africa (CHGA) told PlusNews, part of the UN Integrated Regional Information Networks (www.irin.org). Teixeira was speaking in the Cameroon capital, Yaounde, at the end of the fourth regional interactive meeting of the CHGA, where African government officials and nongovernmental organizations discussed strategies to tackle African women's vulnerability to HIV/AIDS and problems affecting orphans and vulnerable children. ...
Source: Women's Health Weekly (2005-01-06)
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