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Swaziland

Nov 5, 2007

SWAZILAND: Declare HIV/AIDS a "humanitarian emergency"

“While this is necessary to provide immediate assistance, it still fails to specify conditions where it will be given, and focuses on the crisis nature of emergencies instead of the nature of need.”

The impact of HIV/AIDS in southern Africa, which has nine of the world's most affected countries, needs to be reassessed as a "humanitarian emergency" on its own, enabling interventions to be made timeously, a ... via AlertNet

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