U.S. Official Visits Ethiopia over AIDS

U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Health and Science Jack Chow made an AIDS assessment trip on Wednesday to Ethiopia, one of the hardest hit countries in Africa, U.S. diplomats said. Chow and Robert Blair, the State Department's Advisor for International Health, were to meet Ethiopian officials to discuss the latest report out of the US National Intelligence Council, called "The Next Wave of HIV/AIDS." The U.S. officials were also scheduled to meet church leaders, visit an HIV voluntary testing clinic in Addis Ababa and meet with officials of the national anti-AIDS council, representatives of the Chamber of Commerce and non-governmental organizations. The official rate of people living with HIV/AIDS in the Horn of Africa country is 7.3 percent of a population of 65 million.

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