AIDS Ignorance: One-Third of Adults Admit Little or No Knowledge of Pandemic
29 Nov 2007 16:00 Africa/Lagos AIDS Ignorance: One-Third of Adults Admit Little or No Knowledge of Pandemic Survey: The More You Know, the More You Care About AIDS World Vision U.S. President Issues Call to Action for World's Leaders to 'Put a Face on the Pandemic' UNITED NATIONS, Nov. 29 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- More than 25 years after HIV was discovered, one-third of the people in seven wealthy nations admit they know little or nothing about the global HIV and AIDS epidemic, and one-fourth believe the problem is "greatly exaggerated," according to a survey released today by World Vision, the international humanitarian organization. Ironically, 80 percent of the respondents believe their governments should do much more to help children orphaned by AIDS and AIDS-related illnesses around the world, but only 44 percent are willing to pay more in taxes to help fund prevention, treatment, research and care. "This survey reconfirms what all of us on the...