Africa: Establishment of HIV/Aids Corps Urged

Johannesburg — The mobilisation of a Peace Corps-like "HIV/AIDS corps" of technical specialists has been urged by a US-based health advisory panel to tackle HIV/AIDS in developing nations.

In its new report, the Institute of Medicine (IOM), said international aid organisations and governments should proceed immediately with the rollout of several major new programmes to deliver AIDS care on a major scale in the developing world.

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