Compiled and edited by Martin Flynn
Zambia's founding father Dr Kenneth Kaunda (pictured left) publicly took an HIV test last month in the hope that others will follow his example. The 77-year-old, who was his country's president for 27 years until losing an election in 1991 and lost a son to Aids in 1986, is campaigning to increase testing in his country, where 20 per cent of the adult population has HIV, yet only 160,000 people out of a population of 11 million have ever been tested.
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India to prohibit HIV positive foreigners
The Indian government is close to approving a measure to make it compulsory
for foreigners to present 'Aids free' certificates before they are allowed
into the country.
Family Welfare Minister C. P. Thakur told the Times of India that the
measure was necessary to check the rise of HIV cases following contacts
with foreign visitors.
Meanwhile, India's government has announced that it has nearly 4 million
HIV cases, making it the country with the second highest number of positive
people in the world. But they claim the numbers are hardly rising. The
government National Aids Control Organisation reported: "The estimated
number of adults living with HIV in the country for 1998 was 3.5 million
and in 2001, 3.97 million."
UNAIDS estimates put the number of people with HIV in the sub continent
at between 5 and 10 million and growing rapidly.
