(09 Aug 08 - RV) The Catholic Agency for Overseas Development is warning that the
growing global food crisis threatens advances in HIV treatment.
The Agency
says that in poor countries there has been a rapid expansion of the availability of
A.R.T.’s – or anti-retroviral therapies – however such advances could be swiftly undermined
unless the international community acts quickly to mitigate the effects of the global
food crisis.