African AIDS statistics overblown- experts

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With World AIDS Day just around the corner on Dec. 1, many AIDS activists continue to portray the 25-year-old epidemic as totally out-of-control.

"This year, tell the truth on World AIDS Day," wrote former Ambassador Richard Holbrooke on Oct. 9 in the Washington Post. "Admit that we are still losing."

Holbrooke, president of the Global Business Coalition on HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria, said despite some progress, the epidemic continues to run unabated - especially in Africa, the continent hardest hit by AIDS.

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