Latest update: 17/03/2009 

- AIDS - Cameroon - health - religion


AIDS, the uninvited guest of the Pope's visit to Africa
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Around 5 % of Cameroon's population has the AIDS virus. The isolation these people already feel in this Catholic country makes a goodwill visit from the Pope in March difficult. Organisations are meanwhile trying to increase public awareness of AIDS.

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