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Establishment of HIV/AIDS corps urged

    JOHANNESBURG

    The mobilisation of a Peace Corps-like "HIV/AIDS corps" of technical specialists has been urged by a US-based health advisory panel to tackle HIV/AIDS in developing nations.

    In its new report, the Institute of Medicine (IOM), said international aid organisations and governments should proceed immediately with the rollout of several major new programmes to deliver AIDS care on a major scale in the developing world.

    "While we should proceed with caution and care given the many challenges that lie ahead, we should not delay; we must act now to rein in the global AIDS catastrophe," IOM co-chair James Curran said in a statement.

    The IOM report comes just a day after the UN reported that the world was losing the race against the pandemic.

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