Report Links the Orphan Crisis in Africa and Terrorism

Albina du Boisrouvray, president of a leading NGO aiding and lobbying for the support of the hundreds of millions of AIDS orphans and all vulnerable children, today praised the report of the Global Business Coalition on HIV/AIDS (GBC)
just released in Davos pointing out the link between the AIDS orphan crisis in Africa and terrorism.

'I am grateful that such a powerful group has raised this issue again at meetings of the World Economic Forum,' said the president of the Association Francois-Xavier Bagnoud (FXB) 'There, in previous years, I lobbied presidents, former presidents, heads of corporations, mayors, and business leaders for the same cause.

She said that she 'urged them to take this on as a priority emergency to prevent AIDS orphans and other vulnerable and destitute children from becoming a global security risk. Already, in almost a dozen African countries 10-year-olds have been forced to fight. Others, just to survive, have resorted to becoming terrorists, criminals, drug dealers, prostitutes, child soldiers or turning themselves into human bombs,' she said.