Asia Criticized for Silence in Face of AIDS Menace
U.N. officials and AIDS activists denounced Asian leaders on Monday for remaining silent in the face of concern that Asia might overtake Africa as the continent hardest hit by the disease. :: This Reuters report is submitted for your pestilence (Luke 21:11) files. There should be a lot of reports on HIV/AIDS this week, as the World AIDS conference begins in Spain. And an aside, I wondered in a past update why the media did not refer to the global scourge of AIDS as a pandemic and today I noticed that the daily Jennings' Journal (ABCNEWS' World News Tonight, Mon., July 8) did just that. They reported that, "An international conference on AIDS opened today with -- among other depressing headlines -- the stark news that life expectancy in 51 countries will be shortened by the pandemic." So there you have it, one major news outlet has referred to AIDS as a pandemic.