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WFP to strengthen UNAIDS programmes

    JOHANNESBURG
    The World Food Programme (WFP) and UNAIDS have announced a joint programme to tackle the global problems of hunger and HIV/AIDS. Joining eight other UN agencies as cosponsors to UNAIDS, WFP said it aimed to strengthen the AIDS organisation's response to a pandemic which claimed over three million lives in 2002 alone. UNAIDS executive director, Peter Piot, said in a statement: "Ensuring a stable supply of food in homes and the community is a form of HIV prevention, as it minimises the risk of people engaging in risky behaviour in exchange for food." As the world's largest humanitarian agency, WFP focuses on fighting HIV/AIDS through its food aid programmes and currently assists households and individuals in 38 countries. The executive director of WFP, James Morris, added: "Perhaps we cannot give them hope for a cure, but we can give them time."

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