AIDS in Africa: puzzling, harrowing pictures.(Townsend's New York Observer)
From: Townsend Letter for Doctors and Patients
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Date: 11/1/2005
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Author: Cohen, Marcus A.
The descriptive statistics for Africa indicate how poor African countries are. With poverty on the African scale, malnutrition, an unambiguous cause of compromised immunity, is widespread. In tropical Africa, AIDS and HIV sero-positivity are virtually synonymous with regions where malaria is endemic.... In some African medical practices unsterilized needles and shared syringes are used on a scale which would be intolerable in industrialized countries. Pathogenic and other ...
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