The UN special envoy for HIV/AIDS to Africa, Stephen Lewis, has emphasised the need for an up-to-date survey on AIDS prevalence rates, since Rwanda’s present figures were based on data from 1997, a UN spokesman told a New York briefing on Monday. Lewis, who was on a four-day visit to Rwanda, held discussions with Rwandan President Paul Kagame and other officials, including the health minister and the national AIDS commission. They discussed how Rwanda could gain access to the Global Fund on AIDS and health and how it could deal with the problem of AIDS orphans. Kagame pledged his commitment to continued leadership on these issues. Lewis was on a three-country fact-finding trip that began in Kenya and continued last week in Rwanda. He proceeded to Nigeria at the weekend.
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