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BY FRED TASKER, [email protected]
`Every day the world loses another 8,000 lives, And when we talk about the global AIDS (news - web sites) epidemic, this includes the U.S.' - Miss Universe
KATHLEEN CRAVERO, deputy executive director of UNAIDS (news - web sites)
Using words of war at an international AIDS conference in Miami on Saturday, some of the world's top AIDS fighters sought to shock world leaders, national governments, even local high school principals into taking crisis-level action against the deadly virus.
"HIV (news - web sites)/AIDS is the real weapon of mass destruction; it threatens the whole world, with 23 million already dead," said Dr. Mervyn Silverman, the conference's chairman.