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Life in camps deplorable - UN AIDS boss

    JOHANNESBURG

    A quick solution to northern Uganda's 17-year-old conflict has been urged by the UN Special Envoy for HIV/AIDS in Africa, Stephen Lewis.

    He was on a two-day visit to internally displaced people's camps in the Gulu district to assess the impact of HIV/AIDS and conflict.

    "The situation in the camp is desperate and deplorable. No people anywhere in the world should ever be forced to live the way people in camps in Gulu are living," Lewis said in statement.

    The envoy said he would recommend that the UN Security Council place pressure on Sudan to stop supporting the rebellion by Uganda's Lord's Resistance Army (LRA).

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