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News Briefs Zanzibar President Slams Discrimination Against HIV/AIDS PatientsMarch 17, 2003 Zanzibar President Abeid Amani Karume has denounced discrimination against people with HIV/AIDS and their families, according to the local newspaper Guardian. In a meeting with members of the Parliament Committee on HIV/AIDS, the president said that people with HIV/AIDS must be cared for and loved. Karume said that rather than discriminating against those with HIV/AIDS, government and society should lend them all available assistance. In the meeting, some HIV/AIDS patients told Karume of their businesses' losing customers and their children being scolded everywhere they went after their health status was revealed. Xinhua News Agency 03.06.03  This article was provided by U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. It is a part of the publication CDC HIV/Hepatitis/STD/TB Prevention News Update. Visit the CDC's website to find out more about their activities, publications and services.
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