africa: Skyrocketing Orphan Population is a Full-Blown Emergency, says lewis

"If ever the skyrocketing orphan population- already pushing 13 million is to be brought under control, then treatment is absolutely imperative to success. When WHO says three million people will be treated with anti-retrovirals by 2005, the world must make it happen. Anything less is an ethical abomination," said Stephen Lewis, the UN Secretary-General's Special Envoy for HIV/AIDS in Africa, at the Official Opening of the XIIIth International Conference on AIDS and STIs in Africa.