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Subject: OIL AND TOURISM THREATEN TO TREBLE RATE OF HIV INFECTION IN FIVE YEARS
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(SAO TOME & PRINCIPE)  The HIV prevalence rate in Sao Tome and Principe 
could treble over the next five years as tourism and the development of 
offshore oil bring thousands of people flooding into the remote island state 
in the Gulf of Guinea, a prominent local AIDS campaigner has warned. 
Antonio Amado Vaz, executive director of the Sao Tome Association for Family 
Protection (ASPF), an NGO heavily involved in the local campaign against 
AIDS, told a press conference last week: "Unless immediate preventative 
measures are taken,the number of HIV positive people in the country could 
treble in less than five years."  At present, the government's AIDS control 
programme in the twin-island state 300 km off the coast of Gabon is 
floundering.

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