(IRIN News) Health experts are concerned that southern Sudan, emerging from more than two decades of civil war, may experience a major HIV epidemic due to high numbers of refugees returning to the area. Difficulties in raising awareness and widespread education on HIV/AIDS have many worried. More than 4.5 million people fled during the civil war, with four million displaced internally and another half a million living as refugees in neighboring Uganda, Ethiopia and Kenya, all countries with a high HIV prevalence.
Read the Press Release “Sudan: War-scarred south ill-equipped to deal with HIV/AIDS” from PlusNews on April 10, 2006.
https://reliefweb.int/report/sudan/sudan-war-scarred-south-ill-equipped-deal-hivaids
