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AIDS fight must target families - UNICEF

    JOHANNESBURG
    Africa's HIV/AIDS strategies should place more emphasis on the needs of families, a senior UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) official has said. Speaking at the recently ended conference on AIDS and sexually transmitted infections in Nigeria's capital Abuja, UNICEF deputy executive director Rima Salah said: "Our interventions focus mainly on treating individuals and ignore the cornerstone of African society, the family." UNAIDS estimated that 26 million adults aged between 15 and 49 are HIV-positive in sub-Saharan Africa, and children often suffer economic strain when one or both parents die.

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