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Irish rock star Bono, pictured left, of the band U2, spoon-feeds 11-month-old Thomas Qubile - in the arms of his mother Mpumelelo - at a prenatal clinic in Soweto, South Africa. Bono joined US Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neil last month for a 10-day tour of some of the most devastated countries in sub-Saharan Africa.
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Elizabeth Taylor, pictured right, playfully tries to snatch the world famous Millennium Diamond from Ethiopian model Iman, left, at the annual Aids benefit at last month's Cannes Film Festival. The pear-shaped diamond, believed to be the biggest in the world and worth tens of millions of pounds, was the centrepiece of a display at the Millennium Dome in Greenwich; robbers unsuccessfully tried to remove the diamond using a JCB digger in November 2000. The Cannes Aids benefit last year raised over £1 million for the American Fund for Aids Research.
The China syndrome
China is facing an HIV and Aids problem of "unimaginable proportions" and could
soon have more HIV cases than any other country in the world, according to
