Europe's looming Aids 'catastrophe'
The BBC reports, "The World Bank has said that it is imperative that governments in Eastern Europe and Central Asia make a greater political commitment to avert a potentially catastrophic epidemic of HIV/Aids. The region of the former communist bloc has the fastest growing number of HIV/Aids victims in the world and the World Bank says it is putting forward a programme aimed at preventing the situation threatening the destabilisation of their societies." :: Submitted for your pestilence (Luke 21:11) files on HIV/AIDS.