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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."

    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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