We can't get there. There are reports the rates are beginning to rise slowly in parts of this country. It is continuing unchecked. Every leader in Africa now pays lip service to the issue. But with some leaders it's only lip service.
Denial is a real problem.
Senegal, Uganda and Thailand are seeing lower rates of infection because of very strong leadership on the issue, he said, even while infection rates soar in neighboring countries. Holbrooke then recalled a story recently told to the U.N. by Mozambican Prime Minister Pascoal Manuel Mocumbi, who is also a doctor of gynecology. That proves, he said, that it is through education and destigmatization that the disease must be fought. This site is produced and maintained by the U.S. Department of State. Links to other Internet sites should not be construed as an endorsement of the views contained therein.