Zambian army active in anti-AIDS fight

From: China Daily | Date: June 13, 2005 | Copyright information

KAFUE, Zambia: The army corporal sitting on a wooden bench at a dusty camp outside the Zambian town of Kafue has seen warfare at first hand.

But he and his brothers-in-arms are now fighting a biological enemy as lethal as any hostile army.

He and a dozen other soldiers listen to a peer educator preaching the virtues of "living positively" with HIV, the virus that leads to AIDS which has devastated this southern African country of 10 million people.

Sub-Saharan Africa is th...

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