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US $530 million UN appeal for AIDS and hunger

    JOHANNESBURG
    A new UN US $530 million emergency appeal aims to focus on food aid and tackling the effects of HIV/AIDS in southern Africa. The request followed a call in 2002 for $656 million to fight the region's worst hunger crisis in a decade. The UN said that while it planned to help some 2.3 million orphans, it would also tackle the HIV/AIDS pandemic which was badly damaging economies throughout the region. "Unless [HIV/AIDS] is addressed, most of the gains that we have seen ... will not live very long," regional UNAIDS official, Dan Odallo, said in a statement. Funding from the appeal is earmarked for the southern African nations of Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Swaziland, Zambia and Zimbabwe.

    This article was produced by IRIN News while it was part of the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. Please send queries on copyright or liability to the UN. For more information: https://shop.un.org/rights-permissions

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