LESOTHO: Country battles pandemic
10.05.2002
Lesotho has one of the highest HIV/AIDS infection rates in the world, yet prevention and treatment programmes are only just getting off the ground. UNAIDS associate country programme advisor Ludo Bok told PlusNews the impoverished mountain kingdom was still in the early stages of responding to the pandemic, but had a prevalence rate of between 31 and 34 percent.