Plea to governments over growing Aids pandemic

Governments across the world must tackle the HIV/Aids pandemic which has now reached a new high of more than 40 million people with the disease, charities demanded today as they marked World Aids Day.

A coalition of non-governmental agencies – Dochas – were joined by Overseas Development Minister Conor Lenihan, Dublin Mayor Catherine Byrne and the Dublin Aids Alliance to call on international community to deliver on its promise to stop Aids.