South Sudan`s quiet victims of war: With HIV, without help
(WorldNews Health)

YAMBIO, South Sudan (AP) - Tracing his fingers over his bald head, the 11-year-old boy shifts uncomfortably in his chair. `I`m scared,` James Seferino says. `All I know is that if I don`t take my pills I`ll die.` The boy`s mother died of AIDS several years ago because she didn`t know where to get help, said the boy`s father, Andrea Seferino, who also is HIV-positive. South Sudan`s five-year civil war is quietly creating another kind of victim: those prevented from getting life-saving antiretroviral medicine. Experts say the number of affected people could be in the hundreds of thousands. Currently just 13 percent of the estimated 200,000 South Sudanese living with HIV are being treated,...