AIDS UPDATE.

HIV 'set to infect 90m Africans'

The UN says the worst is yet to come with the Aids epidemicNearly 90 million Africans could be infected by HIV in the next 20 years if more is not done to combat the epidemic, the UN has warned.

Some 25 million Africans have HIV, which causes Aids, at present. The world body estimates the next two decades could see 89 million new cases of the disease in Africa - or up to 10% of the continent's population.