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Full-scale AIDS response urged

    JOHANNESBURG

    UNAIDS has urged country leaders attending Mozambique's recent African Union (AU) Summit to invest in HIV/AIDS prevention, care and treatment.

    With up to 1,000 people dying of AIDS-related illnesses each day in the worst-affected countries in Africa, UNAIDS has estimated an even higher toll for those directly affected.

    UNAIDS executive director, Peter Piot, said in a statement: "Sixty million Africans have been touched by AIDS in the most immediate way. They are either living with HIV, have died of AIDS or they have lost their parents to AIDS."

    Piot said HIV/AIDS had "undoubtedly become Africa's biggest challenge", with its devastating impact on the continent's economies, communities, and development.

    UNAIDS estimated that over US $10.5 billion a year would be needed by 2005 for prevention, treatment, care and support programmes in low- and middle-income countries

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