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HIV/AIDS threatening to destroy governance - UN

    JOHANNESBURG

    HIV/AIDS is undercutting improvements in governance made by Africa, according to the head of the UN Economic Commission for Africa (ECA).

    KY Amoako, the ECA Executive Secretary, told a gathering at UN Headquarters in New York on Wednesday that the pandemic was already killing members of some professions faster than their replacements could be trained.

    He said health systems were also collapsing as nurses died, and some national military forces had a 30 to 40 percent HIV prevalence rate.

    Amoako warned that unless Africans could build the capacity of the continent to sustain many areas of government, the governance agenda could be reversed.

    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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