Geldof sees ravages of AIDS in Ethiopia

Two decades ago when Bob Geldof was making his dramatic appeal for help for victims of a devastating famine in Ethiopia, HIV/Aids was all but unknown in the impoverished Horn of Africa nation.

Geldof sees ravages of AIDS in Ethiopia

Two decades ago when Bob Geldof was making his dramatic appeal for help for victims of a devastating famine in Ethiopia, HIV/Aids was all but unknown in the impoverished Horn of Africa nation.

Today, the Irish pop singer turned activist visited an fly-infested clinic and condemned the high cost of anti-retroviral drugs needed to treat the virus that causes Aids, placing them out of the reach of nearly all the three million people suffering from the disease in Ethiopia.

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