The Mekong Times Wednesday, June 11, 2008

The AIDS epidemic has eroded African societies in multiple ways, from threatening government institutions to decreasing agricultural production, a report said Monday, adding that more challenges were expected in coming years.

The report by the African Development Forum presented at a conference on HIV/AIDS at the UN headquarters in New York provided a gloomy analysis of the situation in sub-Saharan Africa, which has been hardest hit by AIDS in the world. “Our overall conclusion is that the epidemic poses a great threat to governance in Africa,” the forum said.