UCC seminar to focus on AIDS crisis

IRISH and African experts will examine development issues and the AIDS crisis in Africa as part of a major conference in Cork which starts today.

The UN last year estimated there were 25.8 million people with HIV in sub-Saharan Africa. It reported 2.4m AIDS-related deaths and 3.2m new HIV infections in the region a year.

The two-day conference, organised as part of the SMA missions’ 150th anniversary celebrations, will focus on the reasons for the lack of development in Africa since World War II.