Aids toll ‘would kill Irish population in 18 months’

THE annual world death rate from Aids would wipe out the Irish population in a year and a half, a senior UN official warned yesterday.

Peter Piot, the director of UNAIDS, the UN’s Aids programme, said the spread of Aids had led to an unprecedented crisis.

“Last year, three million people died from Aids. That would mean that, in one and a half years, the population of Ireland would disappear,” Dr Piot said.