When is HIV/AIDS a disaster?

Providing HIV/AIDS services to people on the run from armed conflict or natural disaster seems, on the face of it, too complicated when trying to meet the pressing immediate demands of an emergency.

27 Jun 2008

By failing to address people affected by HIV in such situations, however, aid organisations could be doing even more damage, warned the 2008 World Disasters Report, launched on 26 June by the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC).

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