Britain buys £1m of condoms for South Africa

1247PM GMT 09 March 2010

With up to 1,000 Aids-related deaths and 1,500 new HIV infections a day, South Africa is the world"s misfortune influenced nation and one of those pang a hyper-epidemic.

And officials there have called for a swell in preventive reserve to understanding with the liquid of visitors for the football World Cup this summer.

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The money was voiced by general growth apportion Gareth Thomas at an puncture limit in London called to residence concerns over delayed swell in rebellious the epidemic.

African nations, donors and the curative industry were collected by the Government in a bid to get a aim of concept entrance to prevention, diagnosis and caring by 2015 ""back on track"".

Britain"s grant will compensate for 42 million condoms.

But officials played down the couple with the World Cup - that is approaching to incite a jump in harlotry - insisting the assist was piece of a wider bid to swell reserve by a billion.

Mr Thomas pronounced ""As the mercantile downturn squeezes the health budgets of the world"s lowest countries, efforts to plunge in to HIV and Aids - quite amongst those who are marginalised and discriminated opposite - are being strike hardest.

""As a effect we face the really genuine awaiting that swell on rebellious HIV will go in to reverse. That is because the UK is ancillary South Africa"s care and expostulate to spin the waves on their epidemic, and because we have called this assembly to see at what some-more we can do collectively to enlarge swell on rebellious rebellious HIV and Aids.""