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AIDS conference

    JOHANNESBURG

    Health ministers from the 14-nation Southern African Development Community (SADC) will meet in Johannesburg this week to discuss the region’s AIDS crisis, AFP reported on Wednesday.

    The conference on Thursday and Friday will also be attended by health experts from the United Nations and the World Health Organisation (WHO) and will be addressed by South African Deputy President Jacob Zuma. It quoted a spokesman for Zuma as saing the main objective of the conference was to give southern African governments an opportunity to gather information that will help them decide on measures to prevent mother-to-child transmission of the HIV virus which leads to AIDS.

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