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Wed 11 Nov 2002Not just a moral responsibility, but a threat to world stabilityHIV/AIDS 2002: The AIDS epidemic is becoming one of the greatest threats to world stability, Mr Peter Piot, the head of the United Nations agency devoted to the ailment said yesterday, calling on the West to increase aid to the developing world."There's definitely a case for increasing awareness in the developed countries that the AIDS epidemic, even far away in Africa or in India, is affecting stability in the world," Mr Piot told a London press conference to launch a report on the disease by the UN and the World Health Organisation (WHO).