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New AIDS Battle Plan Needed in Africa: Experts
If after 30 years of the pandemic "90 percent of people living with AIDS do not know their status... 70 percent of people who need treatment are not getting it, then there is something we are not doing right," Wasai Jacob Nanjakululu, an HIV/AIDS expert for the British charity Oxfam, told AFP.
Grassroots movements from 32 mostly African countries have gathered for an AIDS conference in Nairobi, which opens Wednesday, aimed at exploring radical new approaches to stopping the spread of the disease.
"We are far from winning the struggle against AIDS," said Leonard Okello, an ActionAid International expert in HIV/AIDS.
He said the three-day Nairobi conference would take an honest look at the shortcomings of recent policies to combat the disease and seek new methods.
Millions of dollars -- mostly Western-sourced -- have been poured into anti-AIDS campaigns, but experts say these are not being spent effectively.
"There are a lot of resources in HIV/AIDS programmes but not much of that reaches the community. What is it that we should radically change?", said Okello.
The head of Kenya's National AIDS Control Council Miriam Were said Africa was in denial for too long after the disease hit.
"We were too slow, even when we had evidence staring at us, we buried our heads in the sand," she said.
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