SAO TOME AND PRINCIPE: Stigma hobbles HIV/AIDS fight

by IRIN News

Awareness campaigns have done little to change negative attitudes toward AIDS in Sao Tome and Principe Photo: © IRIN

Some 90,000 Eritrean and Ethiopian refugees living in eastern Sudan could go hungry unless more money is found to fill a 47-percent funding gap in a feeding programme for them, the UN World Food Programme (WFP) said on Friday.

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