The UK’s Telegraph reports that the threat of a global pandemic of Aids amongst heterosexuals has disappeared according to a report released by the World Health Organisation (WHO). However the 25 year health campaign it embarked on was misdirected outside the continent of Africa as it failed to tackle the disease which kills more than all the wars and conflict on the continent.

Jeremy Laurence of the Telegraph writes “In the first official admission that the universal prevention strategy promoted by the major Aids organisations may have been misdirected, Kevin de Cock, the head of the WHO's department of HIV/Aids said there will be no generalised epidemic of Aids in the heterosexual population outside Africa.”

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