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UNAIDS. "Aids will get worse before it gets better."
Mr Bernard Schwart-Lander, UNAIDS spokesman, explained to a London press conference that some countries, such as Uganda, Senegal and the Ivory Coast had managed to turn around the increases in new infections by improving prevention efforts.
But in Asia, he continued, there were over one million new infections last year. China's Aids cases jumped 30 per cent last year and India is forecast to have the world's biggest positive population by 2005.
Mr Godfrey Sikipa, from WHO, said: "Wars kill men but Aids kills women and children predominantly. Funerals are queueing up and everyone in South and East Africa now has a friend or family member who is sick or who has died from Aids."

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Aids dissidents jailed for "terrorism"

Two Aids dissidents jailed in San Francisco on charges of making terrorist threats against journalists and HIV activists are now receiving support from the very people

they attacked.
David Pasquarelli and Michael Petrelis have been accused of besieging city