Toronto Bulletin: HIV/AIDS & Security Issues
AUGUST 2006--Selected Headlines from the XVI International AIDS Conference
Rwanda and Uganda between 1998 and 1999 conscripted about 2,000 HIV-positive fighters to rape women and children in the Democratic Republic of the Congo to spread the virus during their wars with the country, according to a report released by McMaster University professor Ed Mills and Johns Hopkins University professor Jean Nachega at the XVI International AIDS Conference in Toronto, the Toronto Star reports.
Former US President Bill Clinton has said AIDS is a problem affecting many people indirectly because of migration and interdependence among countries.
- Including:
"HIV and Conflict-Affected Populations: Challenges and Gaps"
Paul Spiegel
"HIV and Mobile Populations: Challenges and Gaps"
Lee-Nah Hsu
"Why is this Important? Similarities and Differences Between Conflict-Affected and Mobile Populations"
Davide Mosca
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